STABLER v. RAMSAY

Nos. 3, 4, May Session, 1951.

88 A.2d 546 (1952)

STABLER et al. v. RAMSAY et al. BLACKSON et al. v. RAMSAY et al.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

May 7, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Potter and James L. Latchum, of the firm of Berl, Potter & Anderson, of Wilmington, for Jane Ramsay Stabler, Mary Ramsay Phelps and Caroline Ramsay Chandler, plaintiff-appellants.

Aaron Finger and Alexis I. duPont Bayard, of the firm of Richards, Layton & Finger, of Wilmington, for Walter Blackson, surviving trustee under the will of William G. Ramsay, deceased, and Wilmington Trust Company, surviving trustee for Caroline R. Chandler, and others, defendant-appellants.

William H. Foulk and Herbert L. Cobin, of Wilmington, for Joseph Gales Ramsay and Albert L. Massey, guardian ad litem for Alexandra Morris Ramsay, appellees.

TUNNELL, Justice, SEITZ, Chancellor, and CAREY, Judge, sitting.


TUNNELL, Justice.

William G. Ramsay, a resident of this state, died on September 28, 1916. He devised his entire residuary estate unto Tilghman Johnson and Walter Blackson as trustees, directing1 them to pay the income therefrom to the testator's widow, Caroline Johnston Ramsay, during her life, and at her death to pay over the corpus unto the testator's five children in equal shares. The will...

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