In Re the Trust Created Under the Last Will & Testament of Shields

OPINION

PARKER, Judge.

First Trust National Association, the trustee, filed a petition for instructions as to the distribution of the residuary trust created by the will of Lytton J. Shields (testator). The trustee asked the district court to determine whether the term “grandchildren” as used in the will included great-grandchildren. The district court found that the will was unam biguous and that the term grandchildren did not include great-grandchildren. We affirm.

FACTS

Lytton Shields executed his will in 1933. Following the testator’s death in 1936, the will was admitted to probate in Ramsey…