Fleet National Bank v. Colt

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

This case is before the court following a Superior Court granting of a joint motion for certification filed by the complainant and the respondents pursuant to Rule 72(a) of the Superior Court Rules of Civil Procedure. The question involves the application of the rule against perpetuities to the testamentary disposition of a portion of the estate of Samuel P. Colt. We are asked to decide whether the children of a second life tenant, which children were not lives in being at the death of either their great grandfather Samuel P. Colt (the testator) or their first life tenant…