Willis v. Hendry

In this case the trustees under the will of Friend A. Russ are seeking its construction and advice as to their duties. The relevant portions of the will are summarized in the footnote. 1 In all, some thirty-seven questions are propounded in the reservation and many of these are predicated upon fu ture contingencies which may never arise. Thus several questions are asked as to the right of the trus tees to lease the premises referred to in the fourth article of the will, which the testator’s wife is given the right to occupy but which, if she so elects in writing, are to be sold. She now…