Gale v. Gale

The legal intent of the testatrix as expressed in the language in the will, is to be carried out. Otherwise expressed, it is her will. Edgerly v. Barker, 66 N. H. 434. Being in apparent doubt as to how far the law permits the limitation of estates, she did not undertake to express that feature of her act in concrete terms. Instead thereof she provided that the trust she created was to continue for the benefit of her descendants “as long as the same can be legally done.”

In Edgerly v. Barker, supra, where the testator had placed limitations on the trust estate slightly in excess of those…