Northern Trust Company v. Perry

Flora Perry Ullery, formerly of Chicago, Illinois, died in May, 1915, leaving a will which was duly probated in Cook County, Illinois. After making several specific bequests, she bequeathed the residue of her estate to The Northern Trust Company of Chicago, in trust, the income to be used for certain purposes, and the principal to be divided eventually in equal parts between eight named beneficiaries, if living; if not, to be equally divided among the survivors. Among the beneficiaries named in this provision was “Albert Perry, of Vermont.”

May 8, 1929, the trustee, the plaintiff herein, wrote…