Sullivan v. Sullivan

This is an action to compel the trustees of a testamentary trust to pay to the wife and minor child of the named beneficiary sufficient sums for their support and maintenance. The district court found for the plaintiff and ordered the defendant trustees to pay her the sum of $50 a month from and after December 4, 1941. The defendants appeal.

The record shows that the will of John T. Sullivan was admitted to probate on March 23, 1940, and contained the following provisions pertinent to the present controversy: “to my executors hereinafter named, or their successors, or such executor hereof as…