Slingluff v. Johns

This suit was instituted to procure a construction of the following clause in the will of the late Rev Dr. Henry V. D. Johns:

“ Aware of the liability to loss of their patrimonial estates by females through injudicious marriages or mismanagement, I hereby appoint my two eldest sons, to act as trustees of that portion of my estate which I have devised to my two daughters. This property I hereby entrust to my two eldest sons * * * to be sacredly kept and safely invested, for the sole and exclusive use of my two daughters, Fidelia and Lavinia, and for their children, if they marry, and have…