Simpkins v. Simpkins

The complainants in this cause seek, as the remaindermen, to effectuate an immediate distribution to them of the corpus of a testamentary trust in consequence of the termination of the precedent life estate therein. They invoke the so-called doctrine of acceleration.

The pertinent factual circumstances may be related succinctly. Louis Simpkins during his life sold and conveyed to his two sons, Ernest and Robert, a relatively large farm together with the live stock and farming implements, and in partial payment of the purchase price his sons executed and delivered to him two mortgages each in…