Asa L. Shipman, as Surviving Executor v. Isabella G. Rollins, Appellants

Summary

The Court held that the legacies to the American and Foreign Christian Union, the New York Tract Society, and the Reformed Low Dutch Church did not vest until the widow's death when the fund was created, making them valid because the societies were then incorporated; it also held that the bequest to the Woman's Hospital Association was void as it illegally suspended the power of alienation beyond two lives and that the prior judgment was not binding on the hospital.