Harlacker v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “The will `did not empower the trustees to determine, in their discretion, what her share of the residue income should be or how much was bequeathed to her. It empowered them, rather, to determine, in their discretion, how much of the one-fourth equal part bequeathed to her should be expended for her benefit, and made them custodians and conservators of the unexpended balance.' * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Carpenter v. Smith