Feiler v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““The English courts in taking this view are perfectly consistent. The English courts hold that persons who have the entire beneficial interest in property can do as they like with the property, regardless of the intention of the testator. * * * It is, however, more remarkable that the American courts should disregard the intention of the testator. * * * Doubtless a recognition of this inconsistency and a desire to give effect to the intention of the testator induced the New York legislature to provide that if a testator should direct the purchase from an insurance company of an annuity, the annuitant should not have the right to elect to take the purchase price in lieu of the annuity unless the will should expressly so provide.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. American Bible Society v. Cameron