Kronshage v. Varrell
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Grant county: Geo. OlbMENtsoN, Circuit Judge. Action brought by the executors for the construction of the will of John W. Yarrell, decease'd.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Grant county: Geo. OlbMENtsoN, Circuit Judge. Action brought by the executors for the construction of the will of John W. Yarrell, decease'd. That will disposed of an estate of $60,000 or more, directing that the same be all reduced to money, and that certain legacies be paid therefrom, leaving a residue of something more than $15,000. With reference to that he made the following provision by paragraph 22: “Having in mind the many catastrophes resulting from the actions of the elements and the great suffering, distress, famine and want caused by…
1Opinion of the CourtDonan, J.
The degree of definiteness essential to the validity of any grant in trust for charity is a subject so recently treated at large, and as to which our attitude is so unambiguously declared in Harrington v. Pier, 105 Wis. 485, 82 N. W. 345, that we cannot justify extended review of *164either its bistory or of the writings, of authors or judges upon it generally. This court has decided, disregarding the reasons which some others have deemed controlling, that there are inherent in our courts all the strictly judicial powers, ever exercised by the Chancellor or the High Court of Chancery of England…
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- Swarthout v. SwarthoutWisconsin Supreme Court · 1901
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