Smyth v. . McKissick

Ellison A. Smyth died 3 August, 1942, at the advanced age of ninety-four, leaving him surviving three daughters, the widow of a deceased son, nineteen grandchildren and twenty-four great-grandchildren. His estate was valued at approximately two million dollars. Some time before his death in order to provide for the distribution of his estate among his descendants he executed two trust indentures and a will whereby he conveyed a portion of his estate and devised the remainder to the plaintiffs as trustees and executors for the purposes therein expressed. These three instruments, covering…