The petitioning trustee seeks a construction of testatrix' will to determine whether or not power is granted therein to the trustees to invest trust funds in "nonlegal" investments. Testatrix appointed her husband, Thornton Jeffress, and her brother-in-law, J. Craig Powers, the petitioner, as executors and trustees, and granted to them "full power and authority to sell, invest and re-invest my property in such securities as to them seems advisable...
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