Scott v. Quarles

Rosenbérry, J.

Some questions are argued with considerable force and at some length which we shall not find it necessary to discuss or decide. The primary question is, Did the trustees have power under the terms of the will creating the trust to enter into a lease of the property which would by its terms not expire for a very long period after the termination of the trust? It was stated upon the oral argument that the trustees were about seventy-three years of age and they would therefore have an expectancy of *330approximately eight years. In the ordinary course of events it is apparent that in…