Hamilton v. Drogo

By her will the dowager Duchess of Manchester bequeathed to trustees (now represented by the respondent) over one million dollars in trust, during the life of her son, to apply the annual income “ for the maintenance and support or otherwise, for the benefit of all or any one or more exclusively of the other or others of him my said son his wife and children or other issue as my * * * trustees in their sole and uncontrolled discretion without being liable for the exercise of such discretion think fit.” There was no attempt to provide for any accumulation of this income. Therefore, as the son…