Estate of Duffill

Duffill v. Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank

Good Law
188 Cal. 536·1922 Cal. LEXIS 456·206 P. 42
Supreme Court of CaliforniaMarch 29, 1922L. A. No. 6929.California6,084 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Shurtleff, J.

Eugenie A. Duffill, a resident of the county of Los Angeles, this state, died on January 7, 1916, leaving a last will and-testament which was duly admitted to probate by an order of the superior court of said county. By the terms of this will the testatrix, after making a number of specific bequests, bequeathed and devised the residue and remainder of her estate, real and personal, to the Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, one of the respondents, in trust for certain enumerated purposes. Those material to this inquiry were: To invest and reinvest said property in productive and income-bearing property and to apply and distribute the income and principal as follows: Pay to Albert Duffill, a minor, a grandson of testatrix, and son of Harry Duffill, a son of testatrix, the sum of $3,000 per annum, to be paid until he reaches the age of twenty-one years; to the said Harry Duffill the sum of $4,000 per annum, to be paid until Albert attains the age of twenty-one years, or, in the event of Albert’s death before reaching that age, until the date Albert would have been twenty-one had he lived, each of said payments to be made in the amounts and in the manner directed in the will. It was…

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