Crow v. Marshall & Ilsley Bank

The sole issue before us is whether the bequest of the trust corpus to the grandnephews and grandnieces is conditioned upon their survival until the date of distribution. This date has previously been determined to be the time when the youngest living member of the class arrives at the age of fifty years. In order to construe the final decree to resolve this issue, it is necessary to resort to the will itself. This is because the final decree in the estate assigned the residue of the personal estate in trust “in accordance with the terms and provisions of the trusts created by decedent’s last…