Edward W. Leggett and Susan Post Leggett His Wife v. . Erastus G. Perkins.

Summary

The Court affirmed that the 1833 will vested the legal estate in the trustees during the daughters' lives and that the trust to receive rents and profits and pay them over to the daughters is valid under the third subdivision of the 55th section of the Revised Statutes. The dissent argued the trust was void, while the concurrence agreed with the majority on the judgment but added procedural observations.