Kettler v. Atkinson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that provisions of a will creating a perpetual noncharitable trust for testator's heirs were void
• holding that provisions of a will creating a perpetual noncharitable trust for testator’s heirs were void
• \The purpose of the rule is to prevent the taking of the subject matter of the perpetuity out of commerce or trade for the prohibited period.\
• “The purpose of the rule is to prevent the taking of the subject matter of the perpetuity out of commerce or trade for the prohibited period.”
• “[t]his court is not disposed to rewrite the will of the testatrix”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).