New Britain herald., 1918-05-04
EXPECT CONTEST OF
c. B. STANLEY'S Will
City to Get Estate Il Daughter
Has No Children
MAY TOTAL ABOUT 100000


Without Issue City Gets Income
for Walnut Hill Park.
Indications are that the will of the
late Charles B. Stanley, secretary and
treasurer of the Stanley Rule and
Level Co., who died on April 20, will
be strongly contested by relatives Of
the testators. The will is of more
than passing interest to the city Of
New Britain inasmuch as in it Mr..
Stanley provided that his wife shall
have the life use Of the estate and
at her death his daughter, Mrs. Ruth
Stanley Bates, shall have it during
her lifetime, but if she dies without
leaving children or issue of children
the entire estate will revert to the
city of New Britain to be used for
the care and maintenance of Walnut
Hill park. Although the estate has
not been inventoried, it is roughly es-
timated that it will aggregate between
100000 and 100000.
Life Use Left to Wife.
Mr.. Stanley's will was drafted
in April 1916, and later three codicils
were attached. After providing for
the payment of all debts and funeral
expenses, the Will bequeaths all house,
hold furniture and personal effects to
Mr.. Stanley's wife, Mrs. ELENA D.
Stanley The rest of the estate is left
in trust to the Connecticut Trust and
Safe Despoit company of Hartford to
manage as directed in the other para
graphs of the will. Provision is also
made that as long as Mrs. Stanley
lives the trustee of the estate shall pay
to her the remaining net income OF
all the income from his estate shall
Another paragraph adds that if. dur
ing any year, the income from the
estate shall be less than $1,000 the
rustee shall have power to draw from
the principal such sum as the trustee
and Judge of probate shall consider
necessary to bring the total up to
$1,000. COntinu uing, Mr.. Stanley'S Will
directs that at the death of his wife
ali the income from his estate sholl
go to his daughter, Mrs. Ruth Stan
ley Bates, during her lifetime, but
she shall not have the power ''of an
ticipation, or selling, or pledging or
assigning the income" Upon the
death of the testator's daughter the
will orders that the estate shall go to
her child or children, tissue of her
body" share and share alike. Fur
thermore it expressly states that "the
word child or children herein used
shall not be so construed as to include
any child or children by adoption, and
if there be any adopted child or chill
dren, l exclude, preclude and bar
such adopted child or children from
receiving or inheriting any part or
share of my estate"
Would Affect Nc. Britain.
Another important paragraph in
Mr.. Stanleys Will is the one in which
provision is made this if his daughter
dies without leaving a child or children
Or issue of any deceased child, then
at her death 81 direct that said part
Or share be still held intrust
by the said trustee and the income
thereof be paid in perpetuity for the
Walnut Hill park, called, in the city
Of New Britain, said income to be
paid to the board commission or
authority having the charge Of the
care Of said park
Again provision is made that if Mrs
Ruth Stanley Bates shall have died
before the testators wife, leaving
children or issue of deceased children,
then such child or issue shall receive
"equally per stripes all the incomes
and principal which would have been
paid to any daughter If living In
the same paragraph the will directs
that if the daughter dies without is
sue before Mr.. Stanley's wife then the
net income of the estate shall, at the
death of Mrs. Stanley revert to the city
as previously provided.
Directions are also given that the
trustee invest not more than 5000 in
any one security and permission is
given to sell any stock that may seem
advisable. The trustee is also given
authority to exercise judgment in the
sale or transfer of real estate or per-
sonal property and the recommended
ton is made that the income from
such sales be invested in mortgages
or corporate or municipal bonds OF
high grade but not more than SIS, 900
be put in any one security.
Hearing Next Friday.
A hearing on the will is scheduled
to be held in the probate court here
next Friday. 1t is understood that
the will may be contested and it is
likewise limited that Mr.. Bates, SON.
in-law of the testator. is instrumental
in questioning the will.
LABOR DELEGATION IN PARIS.