Ross v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

The appeal is from a decree in a special case stated, construing the will of Charles H. Ross, who died in 1861. The usual provisions for the payment of debts and funeral expenses were followed by directions for the re-interment of his parents and by minor legacies to relatives. The testator then, after requiring that his designated personal property be converted and invested, devised and bequeathed all his property to his wife, and her successors, in trust, for the sole and separate use of his wife during her life, subject, however, to pay, if she be living, (a) the sum of $5,000 to every one…