Crumlish v. Security Trust & Safe Deposit Co.
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Bill in Equity to set Aside a Voluntary Settlement.—The complainant had made an assignment to the respondent, as trustee, of securities constituting practically her whole estate, and valued at about eight thousand dollars.
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Bill in Equity to set Aside a Voluntary Settlement.—The complainant had made an assignment to the respondent, as trustee, of securities constituting practically her whole estate, and valued at about eight thousand dollars. The assignment bore date January 21, 1891, and set forth in detail certain trusts for the benefit of the complainant dur-, ing her life, with a power of appointment to the settlor, or in default thereof, a direction to divide the fund among such children of the complainant as should be living at the time of her death, the issue of any then dead to take equally the share of"…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor:—
The complainant, Sarah Josephine Crumlish, on the 21st day of January, 1891, made an assignment to the respondent, the Security Trust and Safe Deposit Company, as trustee, of certain securities, which constituted at that time nearly the whole of her estate and had a market value of seven or eight thousand dollars, the terms of the trust or settlement being expressed in a declaration of trust executed concurrently, by the respondent, as follows:
“In Special Trust to collect and receive the interest, income, and dividends there on with power to call in any or all of the sums of…
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