New York Court of Appeals
Theodore H. Benedict, as Executors v. William H. Webb, Appellant
March 17, 188598 N.Y. 460
Summary
The Court held that the testator's clause required division of the estate only after all his minor children living at his death reached age twenty‑one, making the trust for the adult daughter void as it exceeded the statutory limit on suspension; consequently the two‑thirds of the estate was deemed intestate and the executors lacked authority to enforce the sale contract.