Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. United States

SUPPLEMENTARY OPINION

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

After the decision of this Court denying the motions for summary judgment filed by plaintiff and defendant respectively, 252 F.Supp. 191, the parties submitted the record, including one additional affidavit, to the Court without a jury for decision on the merits.

1. The Court adheres to the conclusion reached in the earlier opinion, that the will provides sufficiently definite standards limiting the extent of possible invasion for the benefit of non-charitable interests — the widow and the servants— to permit the value of the charitable remainder to be…