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111 Md. 700

77 A 270

Jones v. Jones

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided January 12, 1910

Court of Appeals of Maryland · decided 1910-01-12

<p>Appeal from the Circuit Court for Kent County, sitting in Equity.</p>

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently May 1954

2 state decisions

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Decided 1910-01-12

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¶1 The parties entitled to the corpus of a trust fund after the termination of life estates therein held hy a trustee for the benefit of certain persons of unsound mind filed a petition alleging that the income of the fund was more than sufficient for the support of those persons and asked that the surplus be paid to the petitioner. It is held that a Court of Equity has no power to grant the prayer of the petition, since to do so would be in violation of the terms of the will creating the trust, hy which the cestuis que trustent are the owners of the fund during their lives/

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