If the trustee of a power, with the right of selection, dies, leaving the power unexecuted, its execution must be adjudged for the benefit equally of all the persons designated as objects of the trust.

Source: CivC 1877, § 354; CL 1887, § 2870; RCivC 1903, § 377; RC 1919, § 444; SDC 1939, § 59.0457.