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TREE v. UNITED STATES

No. 45025.

55 F.Supp. 438 (1944)

TREE et ux. v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

June 5, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen H. Gardner, of Washington, D. C. (Morris, KixMiller & Baar, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for plaintiffs.

Elizabeth B. Davis, of Washington, D. C., and Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (Fred K. Dyar, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for defendant.

Before WHALEY, Chief Justice and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, JONES, and MADDEN, Judges.

MADDEN, Judge.

Mrs. Tree, then Nancy Perkins, married Henry Field, February 7, 1917. He died on July 8 of that year. He and his elder brother, Marshall Field III, were grandsons of Marshall Field who had died on January 16, 1906, leaving a will which, in its twentieth article, gave the residue of his estate to trustees for the benefit of the two grandsons. The details of the trust disposition are shown in findings 4, 5, 6, and 7.

The corpus of Henry Field...

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