In re the Estate of Geier

John D. Bennett, S.

In this accounting proceeding the successor trustee requests a construction to determine whether it *271may make retroactive payments out of principal. The necessity for the construction arises from a claim filed by decedent’s widow, the life beneficiary of the trust, that she is entitled to retroactive payments for support during a period when she allegedly received no income from the trust.

In addition to the above claim, the decedent’s grandchild challenges, by objections filed, certain payments from principal already made to the widow during the period from January 5, 1959…