AMERICAN SECURITY & T. CO. v. UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW, ETC.

No. 6312.

82 F.2d 456 (1936)

AMERICAN SECURITY & TRUST CO. et al. v. UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF MARY ANN SPENCER. et al.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided January 20, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul E. Lesh, Stanton C. Peelle, Date D. Drain, and Jerome F. Barnard, all of Washington, D. C., for appellant American Security Trust Co.

Edwin C. Dutton of Washington, D. C., for appellant Vestry, Washington Parish, Christ Protestant Episcopal Church.

Alvin L. Newmyer, Simon Lyon, David G. Bress, R. B. H. Lyon, and Alexander Prescott, all of Washington, D. C., for appellee Nancy Spencer Hope et al.

E. Barrett Prettyman, Corp. Counsel, and T. Gillespie Walsh, Asst. Corp. Counsel, both of Washington, D. C., for appellee District of Columbia.

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


MARTIN, Chief Justice.

This case was commenced in the lower court by the American Security & Trust Company, a corporation, as executor under the last will and testament of Mary Ann Spencer, deceased, for the purpose of securing a construction by the court of certain items in the will of testatrix. The court entered a decree construing the will, and the executor has appealed from this decree. The present issue relates solely to the questions arising upon the construction...

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