McDonald v. Fulton Trust Co. of New York

This is a bill for instructions, brought by the trustees under the will of James McDonald. Cf. McDonald v. Maxwell, 56 App.D.C. 287, 12 F.2d 822, in which the pertinent parts of the will are set out; Fulton Trust Company of New York et al. v. Bank of America of California, 60 App.D.C. 240, 50 F.2d 1005, certiorari denied 284 U.S. 674, 52 S.Ct. 129, 76 L.Ed. 570. In the latter case we upheld the validity of the testator’s provision that his grandchildren, James McDonald III and Robert Alexander McDonald, should receive only fixed annuities, and not the entire income from their shares of the…