Nashville Trust Co. v. Dake

The Trust Company, as Trustee, seeks construction in certain particulars of the will of Mrs. Adelaide Wiggin Dake, who died in 1926. She left her estate of about $102,000 in trust, the net income to go to her daughter, Bessie Duke Wilson, for her life, and at her death the trust estate to be divided between two granddaughters.

The bill shows that before the death of Mrs. Dake, Richard P. Dews represented the daughter, Mrs. Wilson, in a divorce case, and later obtained a judgment against her for his fee of $5000. While conceded that this creditor cannot enforce payment against this trust estate…