31 N.J. Eq. 37 | New York Court of Chancery | 1879
The Chancellor.
The complainant is one of • the two trustees under the marriage settlement of Mrs. Blackwell. He applies, by his bill, to be discharged from that trust on his accounting (due allowance to be made to him for his disbursements and commissions) and paying and delivering over the money and securities of the trust estate which shall be found to be in his hands. The corpus of the trust estate under the marriage settlement (which was made in 1863) was $20,000. That estate the complainant took into his hands and has managed up to this time. By the will of the settlor, Henry "W. Green, who died in 1876, a very large addition was made to the trust estate. The complainant, under the
The marriage settlement, indeed, provides that in case of the death of one of the trustees thereunder, before the trust shall be fully executed or otherwise determined, the surviving trustee shall nominate, and, with the consent and approbation of the other parties to the settlement or the survivors or survivor of them, appoint a new trustee in the stead of the one dying, and it is urged that this provision for the exercise of personal judgment and discretion in the successor in the trust, should induce this court to refuse to relieve the complainant. But no difficulty will be experienced on that score, for this court will supply the place of the complainant. Hill on Trustees 190. The complainant will be permitted to account, and, in the account, will be allowed all proper disbursements made by him for the estate, and also proper commissions; and he will he required to pay or deliver over the trust estate which will, on the accounting, be found remaining in his hands, and thereupon he will be