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MERCANTILE TRUST COMPANY v. HAMMERSTEIN

No. 50221.

380 S.W.2d 287 (1964)

MERCANTILE TRUST COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellant, v. Robert W. HAMMERSTEIN et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

Motion for Rehearing or for Transfer Denied July 13, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Biggs, Hensley, Curtis & Biggs and Ward Fickie, St. Louis, for plaintiff-appellant.

Lackland H. Bloom, St. Louis, for defendants-respondents Robert W. Hammerstein.

Albert E. Hausman, St. Louis, for unknown and unborn heirs of Mrs. J. M. Griffin, defendants-respondents.

Motion for Rehearing or for Transfer to Court En Banc Denied July 13, 1964.

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

Mrs. J. M. Griffin died testate in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, on August 26, 1959. By her last will and testament her residuary estate was bequeathed in trust (claimed by appellant to violate the rule against perpetuities, the principal issue here) to persons named in three groups. In Group Three of these beneficiaries was included Dorothy Weber Long who...

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