269 A.D. 854 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1945
Appeal by two remaindermen and a successor trustee from an order of the Surrogate’s Court, Westchester County, which granted an application to open the proceeding settling the account of the First National Bank of Mount Yernon, New York, as successor trustee of the trust created by paragraph “ Tenth ” of the will of Isaac Newton Mills, deceased, and vacated the accounting decree dated March 17, 1941. The Surrogate directed the First National Bank of Mount Vernon, New York, as executor of Le Roy Mills’ estate, to bring appropriate proceedings to open the decree dated March 17,1941. Such proceedings were instituted and resulted in the order appealed from, which was entered on the court’s own motion on November 21, 1944. The question presented involves the construction of paragraph “ Tenth ” of the will of Isaac Newton Mills, deceased, which reads as follows: “ I give and bequeath to my Executor, hereinafter named, the sum of Seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000.) in trust, however, to invest the same and keep the same invested, and to apply the income thereof to the support and maintenance of my wife, Cara M. Mills, during her life, and at her0 death to divide the same equally among and between my children Le Roy N. Mills, Priscilla Alden Mills Van Cott, and Nathaniel Mills, or those of them who may survive me, except that if any of my said children shall then be deceased, the descendants, if any, of such deceased child shall be entitled to receive in said distribution the share which such child of mine would receive if then living; and I do hereby declare that the provision herein made for my said wife is intended