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Show HARRISON'S WIDOW-WINS. Court Decides for Her in Regard to Trust Fund Securities. INDIANAPOLIS. July 10. After a long contention over the trust fund left by her husband. Mrs. Mary Lord Harrison, widow wid-ow of Gen. Ben Harrison, has won tho suit brought by Ruasell B. Harrison and Mrs. McKce. Tho courts have decided ln favor of tho widow, holding In effect that the placing of tho securities could not bo changed after tho trustee under tho will onco had made the apportionment. Mr. Harrison provided for a trust fund of $125,000 for tho widow, and atlpulatod that the securities entering Into tho fund should bo appraised at what they had cost him. Tho Union Trust company, an trustee and executor of tho writ, set nsido certain stocks and bonds, and Mr. Harrison Harri-son and Mrs. McKeo excepted to tho apportionment ap-portionment on tho ground that the securities se-curities aro worth a great deal mom than $125,000. and therefore tho terms of tho will wero not being complied with. It was shown to tho court that tho children chil-dren of Russell B. Harrison and Mrs. McKce Mc-Kce are residuary legatees, and the etato Is charged with tholr education; and it was contended that the apportionment to Mrs. Harrison has tho effect of depriving tho grandchildren of tho testator of advantages ad-vantages which clearly ho designed they should possess. The court held, however, that the testator testa-tor had provided that tho stocks and bonds should go Into the trust fund at tholr cost to himself, and thoy must so remain, and the widow is entitled to their earnings, regardless of tho fact that they havo Increased in value till tho fund lc far in excess of $125,003. |
