Robert v. Mercantile Trust Co.

This is an action in equity, wherein plaintiffs (respondents here), as life beneficiaries of a trust estate created by the last will and testament of Edward S. Robert, deceased, seek to compel the Mercantile Trust Company of St. Louis, Missouri, as the testamentary trustee of said trust estate under said will, to distribute and deliver to the life beneficiaries of said trust estate 532 shares of the no-par-value common stock of the Scullin Steel Company, a Missouri corporation, which 532 shares of common stock, together with 133 shares of seven-per-cent cumulative preferred stock (par value…