Wellford v. Snyder

Citations

• 137 U.S. 521
• 11 S. Ct. 183
• 34 L. Ed. 780
• 1890 U.S. LEXIS 2115

Syllabus

<p>A testator bequeathed to four daughters the sum of $20,000 apiece, to be invested in public securites and held in trust by his executors for his said daughters respectively, and the income, as it accrued, applied to their several use a-nd benefit; and directed that “ from and after the intermarriage of any of them',” the executors should hold the securities “ belonging to the said daughter so marrying,' in trust for the following purposes,” namely, for the maintenance of her and her husband and the survivor of them for life, and after the death of both “ for such issue as she may leave at the time of her death; and in case she shall die without leaving such issue,” then for her surviving sisters and the issue of any deceased sister ; and declared his intention that both principal and income should be free from the control of any husband; “ and the better to secure the payment of these my daughters’ fortunes,” directed that, if a fund appropriated to the payment of debts and legacies should be insufficient, his whole, estate should be charged ‘ ‘ to malte up the deficiency to my said daughters.” Held, that the principal of the sum bequeathed to a daughter, who never married, vested in her absolutely, and passed by her will.</p>