First National Bank & Trust Co. v. Baker

This action was brought by the executors and the trustee under the will of Lillie A. Coe, deceased, to secure an interpretation of the will and advice as to their duty. On June 11th, 1923, the testatrix made a will the terms of which, so far as relevant to the questions before us, were as follows: She gave a large number of legacies in varying amounts to relatives, one of them being $5000 to “my nephew Edward C. Wheeler”; she established three trusts in the amounts of $30,000, $25,000 and $20,000, respectively, the income to be paid to a named beneficiary or beneficiaries and in each instance…