Kinsell v. Bank of America

The basic problem for decision is whether certain assignments of interests in a testamentary trust were effective, thus decreasing or defeating the interests of .the appellants. The trial court held such assignments effective. We disagree; the assignors merely possessed contingent remainders ; on the nonoceurrenee of the condition the assignee possessed nothing.

The following genealogical chart* will be helpful in understanding the problem involved.

Eleanor Haney died January 19, 1913. Her will was admitted to probate February 11, 1913. Paragraph 10 provided :

“All the rest, residue and…