Legal Opinion
Estate of Boardman
Hawaii Supreme Court
Decided May 26, 1884PublishedCited by 4 opinions
Appeal erom Fornander, Circuit Judge, Sitting in Probate. A testator devised property to his daughter, to he held in trust for her by his executors, free from control of her husband, should she marry. At the testator’s death, the daughter was married. Held, that a valid trust, to the separate use of the daughter, vested in the executors, to pay the income from the property to the daughter during her coverture.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion oe the Court, by
Austin, J.
This matter comes here on appeal from the decree of distribution made by Hon. A. Fornander, Circuit Judge, Maui.
The question submitted is the construction of the second clause of the will of Boardman, which is as follows :
“ I give and bequeath to my daughter Amy Laura one half of my land in Makawao, of about 400 acres, one large bedstead and bedding, one bureau, one table, one camphor trunk, the small clock, and one half of all my money and other personal property, with the same exceptions as in article 1st. ' This property to be held in trust for her by my…
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