Cavers v. St. Louis Union Trust Co.

CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

In 1915 Mrs. Eliza Northrup McMillan died testate in St. Louis survived by one son, William McMillan. By her will Mrs. McMillan made substantial devises and bequests to him and his wife and numerous $5,000 bequests to friends. Insofar as we are now concerned, Mrs. McMillan left the residue of her estate, then valued at over two million dollars, in trust for two groups of people. This 60-year-old trust now is valued at over seventeen million dollars and arguably has terminated; hence the present litigation.

By this suit plaintiffs, who are some of the residuary trust…