SHOEMAKER v. NEWMAN

No. 5202.

65 F.2d 208 (1933)

SHOEMAKER et al. v. NEWMAN et al.

Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.

Decided April 24, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanton C. Peelle, Walter B. Guy, Frederic B. Warder, and Ralph D. Quinter, all of Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Wilton J. Lambert, R. H. Yeatman, George D. Horning, Jr., John S. Flannery, and W. C. Sullivan, all of Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB, VAN ORSDEL, HITZ, and GRONER, Associate Justices.


VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in a suit by appellees, Enos S. Newman and Edwin A. Mooers, as surviving trustees under the last will and testament of Pierce Shoemaker, deceased, for a construction of certain trust provisions contained in the will.

The provisions of the will bearing upon this controversy are as follows: "I give, devise, and bequeath, all the rest, residue, reversion...

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