Legal Opinion
Bowles v. Bradley
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided August 28, 1995No. 24304PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Toal, Justice:
This case concerns the construction of the word “issue” as used in several wills and trusts executed in the 1950s and 1960s. We affirm the circuit court’s holding that the term “issue” includes adopted children.
FACTS
On August 1, 1959, Elliott White Springs (Springs) created an irrevocable trust (the 1959 Trust or the trust). The terms of this trust provided that the income from the trust would be paid to an eleemosynary corporation for a certain number of years, after which the trust corpus would be split to form individual trusts for seven of his grandchildren. Each of the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Stevenson v. StevensonSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1981
- Jennings v. TalbertSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1907
- Chiles v. ChilesSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1978
- Davenport v. City of Rock HillSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1993
- Germann Ex Rel. Estate of Germann v. New York Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals of South Carolina · 1985
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