Harris v. Burger

The direction to divide the interest from the trust estate among Ihe great nephews and great nieces annually shows the testatrix’s intent that the estate should be kept productive of income. This necessarily requires investment of cash assets and management of all investments. Over so long a trust period as that specified by the testatrix she must have anticipated that changes affecting the productivity of original investments would occur. Without some expression of hers to the contrary it cannot be supposed that she meant her trustee to be powerless to alter or adjust the corpus of the trust…