Estate of High

Winthrop O. Gordon for Objector and Appellant.

John T. Tomlinson, Jr., for Petitioner and Respondent.

KERRIGAN, J.

Leon C. High, also known as Leon High, executed his last will and testament on May 16, 1964, which instrument provided, inter alia, for the establishment of a testamentary trust, the salient provisions of which may be summarized in the following manner: the residue of the testator's estate, after payment of all debts, costs of administration, fees, inheritance taxes, and certain specific bequests, was to be distributed to the United California Bank, as trustee; the will indicated that the testator had designated his adopted son as a direct beneficiary of a $10,000 life insurance policy, the proceeds of which were to be payable to the son in installments of $100 monthly; net income from the trust estate would be accumulated by the trustee and added to the corpus of said trust and, at such time as the monthly payments from the insurance policy payable to the son terminated (some eight and one-half years following the testator-insured's demise), the trustee was directed to pay the entire net income from the trust to the son for life; upon the son's death, the income…