Montclair Trust Co. v. Zink

The notable personage in the authentic legend of this case is one David B. Mills, a former resident of Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, who died testate on February 25th, 1944. In the springtide of his business career he is said to have encountered financial adversities which not only introduced him to the vexations and, perhaps, mortifications of such misfortunes, but seem to have moistened his heart with a realistic perception and consciousness of those distressing pressures that fall upon the indigent.

Those recollections remained thereafter fadelessly in his memory. He eventually…