Benson v. Yellott

Fowler, J.,

delivered the opinioh of the Court.

Mrs. Roberta T. Brooke, a widow, died in 1881 leaving a will duly executed, devising certain real estate in Baltimore County to trustees, “in trust and with authority to sell and convey the same, as soon .as the price or sum of two hundred dollars per acre can be obtained therefor, or as soon thereafter, not exceeding one year, as, in the' judgment of such trustees it shall be deemed expedient; and the proceeds arising from such sale to invest in some safe security."

*167The testatrix directed that the income from such investment should be paid to her…