Martin v. McRee
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Montgomery. Heard before the Hon. Wade Keyes. This bill was filed by the appellees, to obtain a judicial construction of the will of Mrs.' Martha Burt, who was the mother of Mrs. McKee; also, to remove the trustee of Mrs. McKee’s property, appointed under the will of her mother, and to have her husband appointed in his stead.
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Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Montgomery. Heard before the Hon. Wade Keyes. This bill was filed by the appellees, to obtain a judicial construction of the will of Mrs.' Martha Burt, who was the mother of Mrs. McKee; also, to remove the trustee of Mrs. McKee’s property, appointed under the will of her mother, and to have her husband appointed in his stead. By the will of Mrs. Burt, which was executed and probated in 1846, said testatrix devised and bequeathed her entire estate, real and personal, to Abram Martin, upon eertain uses and trusts, of which it is only necessary to notice the two…
1Opinion of the CourtRice, C. J.
The controlling question in this case is, what is the legal effect of the fourth paragraph of the will?
The 10th section of the act of 1812 declares, that “every estate in lands or slaves, which now is, or shall hereafter be, created an estate in fee-tail, shall from henceforth be an estate in fee-simple, and the same shall be discharged of the conditions annexed thereto by the common law, restraining alienations before the donee shall have issue; so that the donee, or person in whom the conditional fee is vested, or shall vest, shall have the same power over the said estates, as if they were…
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