Old Colony Trust Co. v. Shaw

Quincy A. Shaw (the testator) died on June 12, 1908, and his will was admitted to probate on July 2, 1908. By the third article of his will he gave the residue of his estate to his trustees in trust “To hold the same during the lives of my said wife and of my children and of the survivor or longest liver of them, and upon the death of the survivor or longest liver of them, I give, . . . the said Trust Property as it shall then exist to my lawful issue then living, they taking by representation according to the stocks.”

Article Fourth reads: “Whereas at the time of my decease I may have…