Sproul-Bolton v. Sproul-Bolton

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Horace Stern,

Was the corpus of the spendthrift trust here involved immune from attachment by a creditor of the beneficiary after the latter had become entitled to receive it but before it had been paid to him by the trustee? That is the sole question on this appeal.

Elizabeth Howe Sproul, who died in 1934, created a testamentary trust as to a portion of her estate which she bequeathed to trustees in trust to pay the income to a tenant for life and then to the latter’s issue during their respective lives; “the right of each of such issue to receive such income to…