Lane v. St. Louis Union Trust Co.

Appellants are the sons and only heirs of Julia Lane Wackwitz, who died in Switzerland in 1938. They were born of her first marriage to Ralph Lane who died in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1893. They are American citizens, as was their mother until her marriage in 1902 to Max Richard Wackwitz, an officer in the German army, and, of course, a citizen of that country. She and her second husband lived at various places in Germany and Switzerland. In 1908 they visited St. Louis and Mrs. Wackwitz there executed a trust instrument and her will. The trust instrument provided that the income from the trust…