In re the Estate of Smith
New York Surrogate's Court
1Opinion of the Court
Feely, S.
When this testator died on April 19, 1932, there vested in his four children under his last will a right to legacies that are, in every sense of the word, contingent. The income from the main estate is to go to the widow for her life, thereupon to the four children until the daughter Helen reaches forty, or sooner dies — meantime issue of those dying are to succeed to the parental share ■— and at the end of Helen’s period the principal and income of the then existing trust is to be divided among those of the four children “ then surviving,” but issue of those that theretofore died…
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