Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-09
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X BIG WILL CLAIM.
It Amounts to $1OO,0J and Was Left
 by Thomas Hollister of Bristol.

It Amounts to $1OO.0D and Was Left
 by Thomas Hollister of Bristol.
 The Connecticut Trust and Safe De posit Co of Hartford as trustee under the will of Thomas Hollister. late of Bristol, has brought an action to the superior court of this county against AlmAra IIollister and Frederick NJ. Brown, both of Bristol, Fannie F. Brown Trollanu and Alec Trolland, both of Waterbury: Charlotte Sophia Hall. William Phillips Ian and Ser tia Adeline Hollster, all of Greenwich, Seymour l.. Hollistcr and Harriet F. Iiollister, both of Corn, ,.all; William C. Buckley of Bristol. 1Illen Buckley Baldwin and Charles E. Baldwin of Tnomaston. Julia Buckley of IitrEl- field. Harry IIollistpr of Chicago. Ly- dil IOllister Potter and Wilson Potter of Bristol, Fl'anck C. Hollistpr of New York and Alkaline HOiliStlr of Green Wich.
 The complaint sets out that in No yemDer, 1880. Thomas llOliiSter died ill Bristol, this state. possessed of con siderable estate, real and personal. On February 10, 1879, he made and exc cutpd will and on March 31, 1879, hp made and executed q codicil On No vember IT, 1880, the will and codicil were offered and admitted to probate ill Bristol. Tn seventh clause of the will is as follows:
 II give and beQueath ill trust to my friend, Daniel A. Miller, esquire. of Bristol, all my insurance stocks and all the remainder of my persoinal estate, together with the $10,000. the use and income of which 1 have given to my wife while she remains my widow, and direct that the same shall be in T t,n law of the state of Connecticut. and constitute a fund. and that the income thereof as it accrues shall be deposited ill some duly incorporated institution or savings bank. and "femttn for the period of twenty years, when 1t shall be drawn out by my said trustee or his successor and equally divided among my nephews and nieces.or their legal heirs, and that yearly thereafter income of said fund shall be drawn and equally distributed among my said neDheWS and niecoS or ;nelr legal heirs or representatives, and to be and belong to them respectively forever.
 Il further order and direct that if my said trustee shali die or from any cause said trusteeship shall become va cant. another trustee shall De point ed by the probate court and that my trustee or trustees shall have and re- ceive a fair compensation for his, and their duties in executing said trust, said amount or sum to be decided by the judge of probate.
 Mir Miller. who was the sole eXecutor and trustee. resigned and one July 6. 1897. the Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Co being appointed trustee. Nlr Miller paid over to 1t the amount of the trust fund. The trust fund named i'll the seventh clause of the will was originally of the value of about $40OO0. in addition to the $lo,- GOO the income of which was given to the testators widow during her WidOWhooQand the said fund originally consisted for the most part of railroad bonds insurance and bank stocks, savings bank deposits and mortgage notes. At the present time the trust fund.- with the accumulationS thereon, is of the approximate value of $oO.OoO, in addition to the Sl0,0OO the income Of which is given to the teStAtor widow. The people whose names are gwen as defendants claim to have some inter- est or title to the trust fund described. They include all the living nephcws and nieceS of the testator and all the heirs-at-law and next of kin of such as have died and all the heirs at-l, l,.w ana next of kin of tue rStator.
 The action is brought to have deter mined various legal questions which are under the seventh clause of the will,