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Potter Vs. Couch

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 25, 1891

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  9. U.S. 296 (1891) U.S. Supreme Court Potter v. Couch
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  10. U.S. 296 (1891) Potter v. Couch
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  11. an estate in fee depends upon the requirements of the trust, and not upon the insertion of words of inheritance. Doe v. Cosidine
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  12. Kirkland v. Cox
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  13. standing alone, affect the time of vesting of the legal title in the shares of the brother and the nephew. Wellford v. Snyder
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  14. therefore their trust estate could not terminate until they had made the division and conveyed the shares. McArthur v. Scott
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  15. to do so is a question not presented by this record. The decision of the Supreme Court of Illinois in Kirkland v. Cox
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  16. The cases cited against this conclusion differ widely from the case at bar. The two most relied on were Minors v. Battison
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  17. peculiar, and there was much diversity of opinion among the judges before whom it was successively brought, and Manice v. Manice
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  18. in the brother and in the nephew, respectively, from the death of Page 141 U. S. 314 the testator. Copley v. Cooper
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  19. Phipps v. Ackers
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  20. Weston v. Weston
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  21. Nicoll v. Scott
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  22. Scofield v. Olcott
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  23. before), the title, legal and equitable, in the whole estate would be vested in persons capable of conveying it. Waldo v. Cummings
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  24. Lunt v. Lunt
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  25. McDonogh v. Murdoch
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  26. over, in case the first devisee shall alien, is equally void whether the estate be legal or equitable. Howard v. Carusi
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  27. Ware v. Cann
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  28. Shaw v. Ford
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  29. Corbett v. Corbett
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  30. Steib v. Whitehead
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  31. Kelley v. Meins
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  32. estate devised to the first taker, by depriving him during that time of the inherent power of alienation. Roosevelt v. Thurman
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  33. Mandlebaum v. McDonell
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  34. Page 141 U. S. 316 Anderson v. Cary
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  35. Twitty v. Camp
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  36. but upon peculiar bequests of slaves at times and places at which they were considered personal property. Smith v. Bell
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  37. How. 1. In Smith v. Bell
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  38. Pet. 31 U. S. 84 . In Williams v. Ash
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  39. turned upon the local law, and appears to have been so understood by the court of appeals of the state in Steuart v. Williams
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  40. citing Doe v. Hawke
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  41. of the entire interest, legal or equitable, even in personalty, is clearly contrary to the authorities. Bradley v. Peixoto
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  42. Lovett v. Gillender
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  43. that income bequeathed to a person for life shall not be liable for his debts, such as was discussed in Nichols v. Levy
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  44. in Nichols v. Eaton
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  45. U. S. 716 , and in Spindle v. Shreve
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  46. U. S. 542 . In Steib v. Whitehead
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  47. Meacham v. Steele
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  48. Kellogg v. Hale
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  49. Baker v. Copenbarger
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  50. Thomas v. Eckard
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