Legal Opinion
Beach v. Gilbert
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 18, 1943No. Nos. 8182, 8183PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDGERTON, Associate Justice.
This is a suit to determine the validity of a devise in a trust. The testator, John A. Baker, died domiciled in the District of Columbia on May 6, 1929. All his real estate was in the District. His will provided in Clause 9 that on the death of his daughter-in-law, Mary G. Baker, one-fourth of a trust fund should be paid to National Savings and Trust Co. as trustee “to pay therefrom as follows: One-third thereof to a committee of five white persons who have been continuously residents of Prince Georges County, Maryland, five years, each from a different section of…
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