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SHELTON v. KING

No. 180.

229 U.S. 90 (1913)

SHELTON v. KING.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1913.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry F. Woodard, with whom Mr. Arthur A. Birney was on the brief, for appellants.

MR. JUSTICE LURTON delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill to terminate a trust under the will of Anna Smith Mallett. The material clauses are in these words:

"3. I give, bequeath and devise to Jean Louisa, Anna Gertrude, and Robert Philo Shelton, being the children of my cousin John Consider Shelton, deceased, all of Bridgeport, Connecticut: the sum of Seventy-five Thousand dollars, being Twenty-five Thousand...

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