In Re Ebert

A brief prefatory statement of the acknowledged facts will amply divulge the subject-matter of the present appeal. One Elias Cook died testate in 1879. His widow, Anna T. Cook, whom he appointed executrix and testamentary trustee, died in January, 1916. On July 7th, 1916, the Mercer County Orphans Court appointed Trenton Safe Deposit and Trust Company (now Trenton Trust Company, the respondent) to assume the future administration of the testamentary trust as substituted trustee. Among the assets transmitted to the respondent as such fiduciary were two mortgages dated February 21st, 1883,…