Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. v. Bartram

This action takes the form of a reservation from the Superior Court in which trustees seek answers to two stated questions concerning the allocation of certain corporate distributions as between the life beneficiaries and the remaindermen of each of eight trusts. The trustees have withheld allocation of these distributions pending the determination of this proceeding.

The eight trusts in question were created under the will of Joseph P. Bartram, who died in 1948. Six of the trusts originally consisted entirely, and the other two consisted in substantial part, of shares of Bartram Brothers…