Brock v. Hall

The sole question before us is the proper interpretation of an instrument by which defendant Elbert J. Hall created a trust for the benefit of his two daughters, Mildred and Carolyn. Mildred seeks to recover the assets of the trust on the theory that she became entitled thereto on the death of her sister Carolyn, and she has appealed from a judgment entered upon the sustaining of a general demurrer to the complaint.

The trust instrument which was executed in 1924 provided that the trustee was to hold the property transferred together with the net income until the two daughters, “Mildred Miriam…