Cook v. Horn
Supreme Court of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Wyatt, Presiding Justice.
1. It is first contended that, under the provisions of the trust instrument, the petitioners take a fee-simple interest in the trust fund rather than a life interest, and that, being sui juris and not spendthrifts (it being conceded by all parties that Code § 108-111.1 does not apply to this in strument), the trust is executed and the petitioners are entitled to have the corpus of the trust distributed to them. While there is language in certain paragraphs of the trust agreement which by themselves could be construed to enlarge the gift to these petitioners into a…
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