Coddington v. . Stone

The only question argued before this Court was whether the will of Charles C. Coddington, Sr., conferred on his son, Charles C. Coddington,-Jr., an inheritable estate at the death of the testator, or whether the purport and effect of the will was to vest the estate only when the youngest son became twenty-one years of age, at which time the will directs the estate to be divided into three parts and turned over to the beneficiaries. In other words, the question is whether the time at which distribution is required to be made is annexed to the substance of the gift, or merely operates to…