Kahn v. Herold’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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1. ““1. To divide, set apart anti hold tl>e same in as many equal portions or shares as I shall leave daughters me surviving and the issue of a deceased (laughter, allotting, however, and turning over to the issue of a deceased daughter only the portion or share which their parent would have taken if living, that is to say per stirpes and not per capita, and as to the share of a surviving daughter, to invest and keep invested the personal estate and proceeds of real estate of such share, if sold, in such securities as by the Thirty-sixth article of this my will they are authorized to invest in. “2. To collect and receive the rents, issues, interest and income of the portion or share so to be set apart for each of my said daughters and to apply the same to her use so long as she shall live free from any control of lier husband. “3. Upon the death of such daughter leaving issue her surviving, to dispose of her share or portion among such issue in shares as she may appoint by will, and in default of such appointment, or so far as such appointmeni shall not be made, to dispose thereof among such issue in shares per stirpes and not per capita, and if she shall leave no issue her surviving, to continue to hold her share or portion for the benefit of her sister, if living, for life, in trust to collect and receive tile rents, issues, interest and income thereof, and to apply the same to her use so long as she shall live, and upon or in cast» of her death, to divide the same to and am”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Herold v. Kahn