Courtenay v. Courtenay

Citations

• 90 Miss. 181
• 43 So. 68

Syllabus

<p>Wills. Interest given. Trusts. Precatory words.</p> <p>A will devising to the wife of the testator all of his property, the proceeds to he appropriated to the payment of his debts and the support of herself and his children, invests a perfect title in the wife after the youngest child reaches majority, the precatory words not creating a trust, although the devise was followed by a request that the real estate should not he sold or mortgaged during the minority of any one of the children, coupled with a recital that after such time she should he at liberty to make whatever disposition of the property she might deem proper for the use and benefit of the children.</p>