Ingraham v. Ingraham
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. This is a bill, filed on August 24, 1894, in the circuit court of Cook county by Granville Foster- Ingraham, grandson and heir-at-law of one Granville S. Ingraham, deceased, which, as originally drawn and subsequently amended, prays for a construction of the fourteenth clause of the will of said Granville S. Ingraham, and that the same may be set aside and declared null and void.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. This is a bill, filed on August 24, 1894, in the circuit court of Cook county by Granville Foster- Ingraham, grandson and heir-at-law of one Granville S. Ingraham, deceased, which, as originally drawn and subsequently amended, prays for a construction of the fourteenth clause of the will of said Granville S. Ingraham, and that the same may be set aside and declared null and void. Granville S. Ingraham died testate on December 20, 1892, leaving a will dated October 7, 1891. He left, him surviving, his widow,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
First—It is claimed by appellant, that so much of the fourteenth paragraph of the will as provides for a hospital is void as violating the rule against perpetuities. The violation is alleged, to be found in the direction to accumulate. It is said that no fund or estate was intended to be given until such time as the fund should accumulate and be equal to §100,000, and that, as such accumulation to the amount specified might not happen within the time limited by the rule against perpetuities, that is to say, within a life or lives in being and twenty-one years and nine months thereafter, the…
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