Inglehart v. Stansbury
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was a bill in equity in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by Ida May Stansbury to enforce a trust under a deed dated June 10, 1870, by which Gustavus R. Dixon and Ada Georgiana Amanda, his wife, conveyed land of his in the city of Washington to Joseph Inglehart, his heirs and assigns, in trust for the sole and separate use and benefit of the wife during her life or widowhood and no longer, with…
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APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was a bill in equity in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by Ida May Stansbury to enforce a trust under a deed dated June 10, 1870, by which Gustavus R. Dixon and Ada Georgiana Amanda, his wife, conveyed land of his in the city of Washington to Joseph Inglehart, his heirs and assigns, in trust for the sole and separate use and benefit of the wife during her life or widowhood and no longer, with remainder in fee to the heirs of the body of the husband, and, in default of such heirs, then (as the plaintiff contended and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The state of the case, so far as material for the disposition of the motion to dismiss the appeal, may be summed up thus :
The claim of the plaintiff and appellee, Ida Stansbury, formerly Ida Campbell, was based upon the position that the sole duty of Joseph Inglehart as trustee under the deed of Gustavus R. Dixon and his wife Ada was, after the expiration of an equitable estate for life or widowhood in Ada, to convey the legal title in fee in the whole land to Ida. The defence' rested mainly on the decree obtained, with Inglehart’s consent, by Ada Dixon in her lifetime, for the sale of part…
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