Tiffany v. Citizens National Bank

STONE, J.*

This appeal from a decree determining interests in an estate,, presents a question of the manner in which the rule against perpetuities (Civ. Code, § 715.2) is to be applied to general testamentary powers of appointment. The case was tried before the 1963 amendments to the Civil *197Code pertaining to the rule against perpetuities became effective.

Jeannette Miller Bird and Geoffrey Andrew Bird, her husband, executed their wills simultaneously February 17, 1961.

Jeanette died June 16, 1961, and her will, which was admitted to probate, provided, insofar as here pertinent: “2. This trust…