Birckhead v. Birckhead

This case depends upon the construction of a deed executed in 1824 by one Robert A. Caldcleigh to- James and Lennox Birckhead of certain property on Charles street in trust. It first provides that the grantees shall hold in trust for the proper use and benefit of Catharine Augusta Birckhead, for and during her natural life, and free from control of her husband, &c., and then proceeds as follows: “And from and immediately after the decease of the said Catharine Augusta Birckhead, then in trust for all the children of the said Catharine Augusta by the said Hugh Birckhead and their descendants…