In re Tower's Estate
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by Charlemagne Tower, Jr., Richard Henry Lee, and Julius A. Bailey, executors and trustees under the will of Charlemagne Tower, Sr., deceased, from the judgment of the District Court of St. Louis County, Stearns, J.,-entered Sept. 8, 1891. Charlemagne Tower, Sr., died testate July 24,1889, at his residence in Philadelphia, Pa., seised of 17,935,acres of land in Wadena, Otter Tail, Becker, Clay, and Norman counties, and of considerable real estate in the city of…
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Appeal by Charlemagne Tower, Jr., Richard Henry Lee, and Julius A. Bailey, executors and trustees under the will of Charlemagne Tower, Sr., deceased, from the judgment of the District Court of St. Louis County, Stearns, J.,-entered Sept. 8, 1891. Charlemagne Tower, Sr., died testate July 24,1889, at his residence in Philadelphia, Pa., seised of 17,935,acres of land in Wadena, Otter Tail, Becker, Clay, and Norman counties, and of considerable real estate in the city of Duluth. His last will was admitted to probate at Philadelphia; and on December 9, 1889, it was also admitted to probate and…
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
This appeal involves the construction of certain clauses of the will of Charlemagne Tower, late of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, deceased, and relates especially to the disposition under the will of certain real estate situated in this state. The questions raised and to be considered are in respect to the validity of a certain trust created by the will, and by particularly whether the absolute power of alienation of the real estate in question is suspended for a period exceeding two lives in being. The trust is ad*375mitted to be valid under the laws of the state of Pennsylvania,…
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