Cleveland Trust Co. v. Johnson

OPINION

By KINDER, J.

The Cleveland Trust Company as Successor Trustee under the will of Mary L. Johnson, brings this action for a declaratory judgment to construe certain provisions of such will and to determine questions said to exist as to the proper distribution of the trust estate thereby created.

The matter was heard by my predecessor, Judge Brewer, without final determination and is now before me upon a re-hearing or re-argument granted by him prior to his resignation.

Factually the case rests on testimony taken and exhibits offered at a hearing before Judge Brewer on April 9, 1953, a…