Shaller v. Mississippi Valley Trust Co.

This is a suit to construe the will of Michael L. Kelly, and for a decree terminating a trust declared therein so far as it affects the interests of the plaintiffs-appellants. The appellants are the four children (with their spouses) of Alice K. Yore, deceased, a daughter of the testator and a beneficiary under the trust. They maintain the trust ended, as to them, when the youngest of the Yore children attained the age of twenty-one years. The respondents urge above all else that the question isres judicata because of a decree entered by the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis in 1915 in a…