Quinlan v. Wickman
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honors, Judge, presiding. James H. Quinlan and Mary Quinlan, his wife, filed their bill in the circuit court of Cook county against Elizabeth Wickman, Raymond Wickman, Charles Quinlan, Henrietta Quinlan and Michael Burke, and against Nellie M. Burke individually and as executrix and trustee under the last will and testament of Ellen Quinlan, deceased, in which they alleged that on November 19, 1899, Ellen…
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Writ or Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honors, Judge, presiding. James H. Quinlan and Mary Quinlan, his wife, filed their bill in the circuit court of Cook county against Elizabeth Wickman, Raymond Wickman, Charles Quinlan, Henrietta Quinlan and Michael Burke, and against Nellie M. Burke individually and as executrix and trustee under the last will and testament of Ellen Quinlan, deceased, in which they alleged that on November 19, 1899, Ellen Quinlan died, leaving James H. Quinlan, Charles Quinlan, Nellie M. Burke and Elizabeth Wickman her four children and only…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dunn
The rule against perpetuities is thus stated: “No interest subject to a condition precedent is good unless the condition must be fulfilled, if at all, within twenty-one years after some life in being at the creation of the interest.” “No interest is good unless it must vest, if at all, not later than twenty-one years after some life in being at the creation of the interest.” (Gray on Perpetuities, sec. 201; Owsley v. Harrison, 190 Ill. 235; Lawrence v. Smith, 163 id. 149; Hotue v. Hodge, 152 id. 252.) If provisions of a testamentary character are such that under them a violation of the rule…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Attorney General v. Wallace's DeviseesCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1847
- Eldred v. MeekIllinois Supreme Court · 1899
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- Schuknecht v. SchultzIllinois Supreme Court · 1904
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