In Re the Accounting of Keesey

The dominant purpose of the testator to create a trust, divided into separate shares terminable by separate lives, is written large upon the face of the will. (Matter of Horner, 237 N. Y. 489.) Each beneficiary receives an interest in a share cut from the body of the estate.

The income of one-half of the estate is to be paid to the testator’s daughter during her life. The income of the other half is to be paid to two grandsons “ in equal parts share and share alike ” for a period of three years after the death of the testator. At the expiration of the three years, the testator has directed the…