Henderson v. Treadway

ALLEN, *J.

One Washington Treadway, by his last will and testament, admitted to probate by the probate court of Pike county, Missouri, on September 2,1875, created a trust in favor of his daughter, Phoebe E. Henderson, and her bodily heirs. That is to say, the said testator provided that a certain fund be held by a son as trustee, and that the interest thereon be applied to “the special use, benefit and comfort,” of his said daughter during her natural life, and that “if necessary for her comfort a portion of the principal” might be used; whatever remained at her death to be equally divided…