Flynn v. Brownell

Charles M. Begole, in his lifetime was financially well circumstanced. Pie made testamentary disposition of his property in an instrument containing a number of specific charitable bequests, a bequest in trust for plaintiff’s decedent, and a residuary bequest. It is with the trust in its relationship to the residuary clause that we are here concerned. The trust was in the nature of a life interest in the investment return on the corpus. The concerned paragraph is hereinafter set forth in full:

“Sixth: — I give, devise and bequeath to the First National Bank at Flint Five Hundred Thousand…