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- Title: St. Louis Union Trust Company v. Marian
- Author : Supreme Court of Missouri Division 2
- Release Date : January 28, 1971
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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This is a suit by a trustee seeking the construction of a will; that will determines the ownership of certain funds which the plaintiff is holding in trust. The trust, revocable in nature, had been created by Evelyn Tate Morton, widow of I. Powell Morton, for the benefit of herself and her own relatives. The defendants in the case are the residuary legatees under the will of I. Powell Morton, being nieces and nephews. We have jurisdiction because the amount in controversy exceeds $59,000. Certain portions of that will must be quoted. A copy was attached as an exhibit to plaintiff's petition and made a part thereof. The will was executed on September 23, 1963; Morton died on November 29, 1965; his wife survived, as already indicated. A brother, Tunis Morton, and a sister, Mrs. W. P. Carlton, both of whom were contingent beneficiaries under the will, died, respectively, on August 5, 1965, and February 14, 1964; both of those dates were prior to the death of the testator. The widow survived until December 27, 1967, having established her trust in the meantime. Morton was a resident of the City of St. Louis and his estate is in probate there.