Mellen v. Mellen

This process was instituted by Chase Mellen, Jr. and George Woodbridge, two of eight grandchildren of Joseph H. Manley, late of Augusta, who died February 7th, 1905. They are the Successor Trustees under his will, executed June 17th, 1902, and are seeking a construction of its Eleventh Paragraph, which must control the disposition of the corpus of a trust created therein and terminated by the death of Sydney S. M. Breck, the last survivor of his four children, on March 18th, 1951. The proceeding was commenced on August 2nd thereafter.

The eight grandchildren are the respondents. They take the…