McCord v. Whitehead

Simmons, Chief Justice.

By a will executed and probated in 1854, Mrs. Mary Ann Harper devised and bequeathed, to the persons named as executors therein, her entire estate, upon uses and trusts declared in the following words:

“In trust, nevertheless, for the uses and purposes hereinafter expressed, that is to say, in trust for the support and maintenance, of my children not provided for, and to have a home for them under the supervision of my husband alone. In trust also, that that part or portion that may be set apárt for each of my daughters may be made over to trustee or trustees for each of…