Peck v. Kinney’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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1. ““The trustee for the time being shall from time to time as often as once in each six months (luring the continuance of this trust pay out from the then trust funds and property (Including accumulations of income as well as the then corpus of the estate) at the rate of $7,000 per year until the principal or corpus of said trust estate and property as well as all accumulations of Income have been exhausted. “During the lifetime of my wife if she survives me, she is to receive the same fractional share of each of said payments as would be payable to her upon an equal division of said payments between herself and my children living or represented by living issue at the time of such payments respectively. For example, if my family consists of its present members, one fourth to her, but if at my death or at any time during the term of her life either of my children should die leaving no issue surviving or the issue of any deceased child should all die, the fractional share of my wife is to be increased, from and after such occurrence, to make her payments equal to that of each of my children then living. And if my wife survives me, and at my death or at any time during her life neither of my children nor any issue of theirs is surviving, the whole of said payments shall be made to her as they respectively become due and payable during the term of her life. “At all times during the continuance of these trusts the child, children ■or descendants living at the time, of any child of mi”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Peck v. Kinney