Lang Ex Rel. Lang v. Mississippi Valley Trust Co.

Initially this was an action by remaindermen against a life tenant and the successor trustee to construe the will of Jemima Lindell who died in 1896. The will, executed in 1891, devised the residue of Mrs. Lindell's property to Judge Wilbur F. Boyle as trustee with discretionary power to sell trust property and invest the proceeds. Judge Boyle died in 1911 and, under the terms of the will, the Mississippi Valley Trust Company became the successor trustee but without power to sell real estate. Among the productive trust assets in 1896 was a lot and an eight-story building at Twelfth and…