Court Opinion

ID: 9714988
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:51:03.239218+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:30.302571
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On motions for rehearing. After the foregoing opinion was filed, the defendants Hughes and Youngman filed a motion for rehearing as did the defendants Parker Kendall, Daskey, Bastien, Korol, Anderson and Crawford.
Lampron J.
One of the points on which rehearing was sought is the following: “In view of the court’s decision it now becomes necessary to decide what effect, if any, the payments monthly of the sum of $100.00 to Elizabeth Korol (under paragraph XV after the death of Adela Parker Kendall) has upon the amount payable to her in satisfaction of her share in the presently distributable income of the trust estate.”
Our answer is that the trustee must decide in the exercise of its discretion if payments are to be made to Elizabeth Korol under said paragraph and the amount thereof not to exceed of course $100 per month. This exercise of discretion is controlled by the will only to the extent that the trustee must be able to reasonably conclude that Elizabeth’s circumstances make it “necessary that she receive assist*99anee.” Hills v. D’Amours, 95 N. H. 130, 139; Woodward v. Jolbert, 94 N. H. 324, 326.
The trustee must consequently review the prior exercise of its discretion in the light of the court’s opinion. If it decides that, applying the effect of this opinion retroactively it would not, in the exercise of a reasonable discretion, have made payments to Elizabeth, or it would have made lesser payments, then the amount, if any, which has thus been overpaid to Elizabeth is to be charged against her share of the presently distributable income.
The motions for rehearing present no other questions not already fully considered. Accordingly the order is

Motions for rehearing denied.

All concurred.