Wineland v. Security Bank & Trust Co.

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

This appeal relates to the construction of a trust instrument. Arthur Wine-land, an elderly widower, who contemplated remarriage, on February 9, 1959, conveyed certain farm lands (being all the property that he owned) to the Security Bank & Trust Company, as trustee. The bank executed a declaration of trust, the construction of which is now before this court. The trust instrument provides that the beneficiaries are Arthur Wineland (the settlor), the widow of Arthur Wineland, two sons, Albert Wineland and Oscar Wineland, and a daughter, Winnie Wineland Fletcher.…