Danaher v. Hildebrand

Action for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of real estate. Defendants held the real estate in trust as the surviving executors of a testator who died in 1891. The decedent’s will, after giving certain trust legacies not here involved, directed that all the rest, residue and remainder of his estate should he kept undivided and undistributed until his wife’s death. He gave her the whole net-income so long as she remained his widow; upon her remarriage one-half of the income was bequeathed to her and the other half to his children, share and share alike, “ and upon my wife’s…