Central Trust Co. v. Egleston

The trustee brings suit for construction of a will. Testator left him surviving a widow and three infant sons, the children by his first wife. The estate consists entirely of personal property. It is clear and conceded by all parties that the trust for the benefit of the widow giving her an annuity of $4,000 a year, after a period allowed for the settlement of the estate, is a valid provision and separable from the other provisions of the will. She is to receive the $4,000' a year either as income from the earnings of the corpus of the testamentary estate alone, in which case the legacy is to…