In re the Intermediate Accounting of First National City Bank

The question to be determined on this construction application is whether the adopted child of Sir Anthony M. L. Cope is a “ descendant ’ ’ of his within the meaning of the trust agreement here involved.

One of the trusts established by the settlor, who died in October, 1949,. provided that the income was payable to the settlor for her life, and that upon her death the principal was to be set apart into two separate equal trusts, one for the benefit of Joan Penelope Cope Grant, the settlor’s granddaughter, and the other to be held for the use of the settlor’s daughter Edna Frances Cope. The…