Newberry v. Blatchford

Walter L. Newberry died in 1868, leaving a widow and two unmarried daughters. By his will he placed the body of his estate in the hands of trustees, to hold until the death of the last survivor of these three persons, for the purpose of distributing the whole net income annually,—$10,000 to the widow, and the residue to the daughters, or to the survivor thereof. The widow refused to take what was offered to her under the will. The trustees paid the whole income, annually, to the daughters, until one of them died childless, and from that time they paid the whole of the income to the surviving…