Court Opinion

ID: 9651703
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 16:31:39.92953+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:37.682098
License: Public Domain

DENISON, Circuit Judge
(dissenting). I am not able to agree with the opinion of the court. I think the dominant purpose of the *196testator to be drawn from the will was that the wife and daughter should have a life interest only while the fee was preserved for the only probable, if not the only possible, descendants in another generation. So far as the special power of the trustee went beyond providing for unexpected necessities which income would not meet, I think the testator had in mind, not the reasonably probable things for which he could easily provide in terms, but those unforeseeable developments which might go beyond anything expected and could be covered only by general words. It is not infrequent for one who has only the income of an estate, greatly to desire ownership of a home, or means of providing reasonably for a dependent, or other things which these may illustrate, and under such circumstances that the gratification of the desire becomes important enough so that the testator, if living, would have complied, or if he had thought of itl specifically would have provided for it in his will. I do not think we can e'arry the trustee’s discretion further than 'this without departing from the testator’s controlling wish.