Mississippi Valley Trust Co. v. Ruhland

The Mississippi Valley Trust Company, a corporation, as co-executor under the will of Rosa Ruhland, deceased, instituted this suit for a declaratory judgment, presenting two principal questions in the trial court: "a) Were bequests to four of the six residuary legatees valid despite slight errors in the corporate names by which they were described; and b) was one of these residuary bequests to the Federal Old Soldiers' Home, apart from the apparently erroneous inclusion of the word `Old' in its name, a valid bequest, and if not a valid bequest, to whom should its share of the residue be paid?"