Brooks v. Raynolds
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio. Creditors’ hill filed by F. A. Raynolds against Cassius B. Hanna, Hattie L. Hanna, his wife, and J. Twing Brooks, executor and trustee of the estate of Robert Hanna, deceased.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio. Creditors’ hill filed by F. A. Raynolds against Cassius B. Hanna, Hattie L. Hanna, his wife, and J. Twing Brooks, executor and trustee of the estate of Robert Hanna, deceased. The bill was based upon the claim that Cassius B. Hanna had, under the will of his father, Robert Hanna, an estate for life, which might be subjected to the payment of his debts, in an undivided one-half of the real and personal property devised and bequeathed by the will in trust to J. Twing Brooks, the executor. On filial hearing the…
1Opinion of the Court
After stating the facts, the opinion of the court was delivered by
LURTON, Circuit Judge:
The character of the interest which the judgment debtor, Cassius Hanna, has in the trust founded by his father, depends upon the true construction of his will. That he has no interest whatever in the corpus of the estate is conceded. Whatever interest he has is limited to the one-half of the income of the fund devised to the executor, Brooks. The other half of the income is wholly devoted to the children of the testator’s deceased daughter, Arrial. Whether Arrial’s children take vested interests in their…
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