Chamberlain v. . Chamberlain’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 district · 146 state decisions

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1. ““If the residuary bequests are valid, there was an equitable conversion of the whole estate into personalty for all the purposes of the will. The gifts were of money, the avails of the real and personal estate, and the conversion of the realty into personalty, under the authority conferred upon the executors, is regarded as having been accomplished at the death of the testator. Leigh & D. Conv. 5, 109; Phelps v. Pond, 23 N. Y. 69 ; Thornton v. Hawley, 10 Ves. 129; Stagg v. Jackson, 1 N. Y. 206 . If, therefore, the disposition of the residue of the estate in favor of the two corporations named as legatees is valid as a bequest of personal property, and to the extent that the two corporations can take under the will, regarding the gift as of personalty, and not of realty, the will must stand. The Centenary Fund Society is a foreign corporation, having its existence under the laws of Pennsylvania, and located within that state. The existence, however, of corporations organized under the laws of a sister state, is recognized by the courts of this state; and they may take property here under wills executed by citizens of the state if, by the law of their creation, they have authority to acquire property by devise or bequest.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sickles v. City of New Orleans