Chaplin

The will of Mary E. Bradford, late of Lewiston (whose decease occurred in 1917), created a trust. The trust attached, and the trustees qualified. They later disagreed. The trouble arose over the selling price of certain shares of the capital stock of a merchandising corporation, located and doing business in the former home city of the testatrix. Some of the shares the testatrix herself had owned; the rest the trustees had received as a dividend. The will provided that the trustees might retain the investment without fear of personal loss. This provision did not, it might be noted in passing,…