BEACH v. GILBERT

Nos. 8182, 8183.

133 F.2d 50 (1943)

BEACH v. GILBERT et al. HILL et al. v. SAME.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided January 18, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Leslie C. Garnett and Francis W. Hill, Jr., with whom Mr. Henry H. Pike, all of Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. John E. Powell, with whom Messrs. Benjamin S. Minor and Arthur P. Drury, all of Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellees.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice and MILLER and EDGERTON, Associate Justices.


EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

This is a suit to determine the validity of a devise in a trust. The testator, John A. Baker, died domiciled in the District of Columbia on May 6, 1929. All his real estate was in the District. His will provided in Clause 9 that on the death of his daughter-in-law, Mary G. Baker, one-fourth of a trust fund should be paid to National Savings and Trust Co. as trustee "to pay therefrom as follows: One-third thereof to a committee of five...

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