Estate of Martin Nixon

Opinion bt

Linn, J.,

The question is whether appellant’s husband, who died before the termination of a testamentary trust created by his grandfather, was entitled to income for his own life, as the learned court below held, or pur autre vie, as appellant contends.

Martin Nixon died in 1888, leaving a will dated February 14, 1880, with a codicil dated March 12, 1884. He left surviving him four children: Martha B. Miller, M. Martine Nixon, Alice F. Nixon and George F. Nixon, and no issue of deceased children. By the third paragraph of his will, he gave his estate to trustees “to pay over and…