Green v. Green

John Green, of Baltimore County, who died in 1927, executed a will leaving the residue of his estate to his wife, Emma W. Green, in trust to pay taxes, fire insurance premiums and cost of repairs to buildings, and to pay the net income to herself for life, and after her death to divide the corpus among his children. The trust estate consisted of a farm, certain shares of stock and cash. On January 1, 1929, the widow leased the farm to Clarence J. Green, a son of the testator, for an annual rent of $700. She died on October 30, 1939. In 1942 the court assumed jurisdiction of the trust,…