107 N.Y.S. 152 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1907
The plaintiff and certain defendants appeal from a judgment dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint. The action is- brought under section 1537 of the Code of Civil.Procedure for the partition of certain real property owned by the deceased at the time of his death. The 4th paragraph of his will, which purports to create a trust, is attacked by the plaintiff, and the case turns upon the question
Paragraph 4 of the will, the effect of which is in dispute, is as follows: . .
“ I give and devise .to my executor the three pieces of real estate ■situate on Carroll street in said borough known by the numbers 18 (eighteen), 49 (forty-nine) and 51 (fifty-one), in trust to hold for the' benefit of my said son, Garrett, for the term of five years and pay him from the income forty dollars ($40) per month, and holding the remainder in trust for his benefit in the future, 'and keeping the ■property in fair condition free from arrears of taxes and assessments. If at the end of that period.it shall be found that my son, Garrett, has abstained from intoxicating drink during the same, the-executor may turn over the property to him with the surplus, of income, otherwise he is to continue to hold the saíne as in his judgment it shall seem proper to do so.”
Paragraph 6 of the will is as follows:
“ I give, devise and bequeath the residue of my estate, if any there be, to my two sons and daughter, and in case my, son, Garrett, shall die without issue, the real estate devised for his benefit shall go to my suiviving son and my daughter equally.”
In addition to the properties mentioned in these paragraphs of the will, the deceased left the contents of liis stable to his son, Garrett Reilly, a house to his daughter, Elizabeth Keenan, this plaintiff, subject to a lien thereon in favor of her children ; a house in trust for the children -of a deceased child; and certain household furniture-to his daughter, this plaintiff.
The plaintiff contends that the attempted devise in the-4th- paragraph of the -will, for the benefit of the son Garretj;, is void because it suspends the power of alienation for more than two lives in being at the time of the creation of the trust; it is to be observed that the trustee is directed to hold the property for five years for the benefit of the son Garrett, and- pay him from the income the sum of forty dollars per month. If the will merely directed that the property be held in trust for a term of years, the trust would, doubtless be void, as offending against the statntes of perpetuities ;
The trust was, therefore, valid. The judgment merely dismisses the complaint, and it does not seem orderly that we discuss other questions in relation to the alleged unlawful accumulation, for they do not appear to be raised by the record. We conclude that the judgment is right and must be affirmed, with costs.
Jekjis, Gaynor, Rich and Miller, JJ., concurred.
Judgment affirmed, with costs:
See Real Prop. Law (Laws of 1896, chap. 547), § 32; Pers. Prop. Law (Laws of 1897, chap. 417), § 2.— [Rep.
