Ford v. Yost

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Reversing.

This suit seeks to have declared void Item 3 of the will of John W. Ford, Sr., as being in violation of the statute and rule against perpetuities and ¡asks for an accounting. The testator died March 24, 1924, and his son, John Ford, Jr., died intestate March 4, 1936. The suit was filed by Ann Ford, the widow of John Ford, Jr., in her own right and as guardian of their five children, and by Howard Ford, an adult child of a former marriage, against the trustee under the will, two children and a grandchild, the daughter of a deceased child…