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Markle v. Comm'r

12 Cited authorities

  1. Jones v. Habersham

    107 U.S. 174 (1882)   Cited 128 times
    Describing the "rule against perpetuities, by which every devise or bequest is void which may by possibility not take effect within a life or lives in being and twenty-one years afterwards."

  2. Ould v. Washington Hospital

    95 U.S. 303 (1877)   Cited 129 times
    In Ould, there was a recommendation to the trustees to select an institution which "shall not be under the control of any one religious sect or persuasion."

  3. Matter of Durbrow

    245 N.Y. 469 (N.Y. 1927)   Cited 80 times

    Argued June 10, 1927 Decided July 20, 1927 Appeal from the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department. Robert H. Wilson, Jr., for appellants. George P. Fall for executor, respondent. Isaac N. Jacobson for Edward W. Curtis, Jr., et al., respondents. Albert Ottinger, Attorney-General ( Robert P. Beyer of counsel), for respondent. POUND, J. The question is as to the validity of the twenty-eighth clause of the will of Mary C. Durbrow, deceased, a childless widow, which reads as follows: " Twenty-eighth

  4. J.W. Perry Co. v. Norfolk

    220 U.S. 472 (1911)   Cited 31 times
    Concluding that leases “for ninety-nine years, renewable forever” were perpetual leases in which the tenants were effectively the owners of the property

  5. Matter of MacDowell

    217 N.Y. 454 (N.Y. 1916)   Cited 90 times
    In Matter of MacDowell (217 N.Y. 454) the testatrix gave to her executor and trustee a fund to be invested, the income of which was to be expended for hiring and maintaining a house "to be used as a home for refined, educated, Protestant gentlewomen whose means are small and whose home is made unhappy by having to live with relatives who think them in the way."

  6. Speer v. Colbert

    200 U.S. 130 (1906)   Cited 18 times

    APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. No. 153. Argued December 13, 14, 1905. Decided January 2, 1906. Institutions incorporated under special acts of Congress take their character from the act incorporating them and bequests to Georgetown College and other institutions in the District of Columbia under a will made within thirty days of the death of the testator held not void, under § 34 of the Maryland Bill of Rights, as the legatees are not sectarian institutions under any

  7. Great Northern Railway v. Minnesota

    216 U.S. 206 (1910)   Cited 9 times

    ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. No. 359. Argued November 5, 8, 1909. Decided February 21, 1910. A state legislature, unless restrained by the constitution of the State, may contract to limit the State's power of taxation; but, as taxation is essential to the existence and operation of government, an exemption therefrom will not be presumed from doubtful language, but must be expressed beyond reasonable doubt. When a State becomes the owner by purchase of the entire property

  8. Matter of Beekman

    134 N.E. 183 (N.Y. 1921)   Cited 31 times

    Argued October 5, 1921 Decided December 6, 1921 Motion for re-argument submitted January 9, 1922 Decided January 17, 1922 James N. Gehrig for appellant. Herbert L. Fordham for respondents. CRANE, J. Gerard Beekman, a bachelor, died on November 9th, 1918, at the age of seventy-five. His only near relatives living at the time of his death were his sister, Mrs. Hoppin, and her descendants. There were no other kinsmen of nearer relationship than second cousin, one degree removed. Mr. Beekman stated in

  9. Gilmer v. Stone

    120 U.S. 586 (1887)   Cited 23 times
    In Gilmer v. Stone, 120 U.S. 586, the testatrix devised property to "the board of foreign and the board of home missions.

  10. Matter of Olmstead

    131 Misc. 238 (N.Y. Surr. Ct. 1928)   Cited 13 times

    January 17, 1928. Andrew C. Fenton, for Courtney R. Sanford and Frank Kittle, executors and trustees. Ives Craft, for Ursula S. Hull and Nancy Sanford, as administration of D. Rowland Sanford, deceased. James A. Betts [ Virgil B. Van Wagonen of counsel], for The Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church and The Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Albert Ottinger, Attorney-General, successor to Charles D. Newton, Attorney-General. McNAUGHT