SOLLERS v. MERC.-SAFE DEP. & TRUST

[No. 482, September Term, 1970.]

262 Md. 606 (1971)

278 A.2d 581

SOLLERS ET AL. v. MERCANTILE-SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY, TRUSTEE U/W OF ALBERT BROWN, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 25, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wallace Dann, with whom were Bregel & Bregel, Chartered, on the brief, for appellants.

Nevin E. Leese and Irving L. Fishbein for appellees Mildred Clark et al. No brief filed on behalf of appellee Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Co., Trustee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and BARNES, McWILLIAMS, FINAN, SINGLEY and SMITH, JJ.


SINGLEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case poses a narrow question: in making a stirpital distribution of the remainder of a testamentary trust among the decendants of the persons who had received the income for life, are the stirpes, or stocks, to be found among those who had the equitable life estates, or among the remaindermen, who are the first takers?

Albert Brown died domiciled in Baltimore in...

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