BARLOW
V.
LOOMIS.
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erous cases there cited in note, as Huff v. State, 29 Ga. 424; Reese v. Mahoney, 21 Cal. 305; and Shippen's Lessee v. Bush, 1 Dail. 250. Rule 22 of this court is but a statement of the universal canon or precept which is observed by all courts where the matter of rights is involved. That rule is as follows: "No verbal agreement of parties or their counsel, touching any cause pending before this court, shall be deemed of any va,lidity, or be noticed in any way, by the court, in case of dispute or disagreement." The rule is thus stated in Hoff. Ch. Pr.: "It will be noticed that the agreement or consent, unless thus established, is not even to be suggested against the party; and our chancellors have been strict in adhering to this rule." Page 26. The necessity and wisdom of the restriction is manifest by its universal adoption by the courts, and, having been further emphasized by being enrolled as a rule of this court, is obligatory, and must be followed. The rule must therefore be discharged.
BARLOW v. LOOMIS and others. (Cirouit Court, D. Vermont. March 20, 1884.) 1. 2. TRUST-POWER Oil' REVOCATION-FAILURE TO EXERCISE.
A trust declared by testator during his life-time, with the privilege of revocation, will, if unrecalled, prevail over the title of a residuary legatee. SAME-STATEMENT.
Testator transferred stocks and bonds to L., upon trust to pay him the income while he lived, and after his death to transfer them to others, reserving the power, however, to revoke this disposition of the property at any time. He died, leaVing the trusts unrevoked. Held, that the power of revocation died with him, and that upon his death the trusts lJecame alJsolute. /
In Equity. E. R. Hard, and A. G. Safford, for orator. Daniel Roberts and Robert Roberts, for defendants. WHEELER, J. The orator is a residuary legatee under the will of Sidney Barlow, who, in his life, at three several times, delivered and transferred to the defendant Loomis stocks and bonds, under writmade between them, providing in two of them that ten Loomis should hold the stock and bonds in trust, to pay over the interest and dividends to Barlow during his life, and at his decease to 'transfer them to the other defendants; and in the other that Loomis should hold the bonds for the benefit of other defendants at the death of Barlow, reserving the right to him to demand and have the income while he should live, and to revoke the trust altogether and have the bonds returned to him if he should so elect. Loomis paid the income to Barlow during his life; he did not revoke the trust, but died leaving the stocks and bonds in the possession of Loomis. This bill
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FEDERAL REPORTER.
is brought to have these stocks and bonds brought into the assets of the estate, so that the orator may have his share of them. . The orator's interest in them depends wholly upon whether they were a part of the estate of the testator at the time of his death. If they were, his share inthem goes to him by the will; if they were not, nothing of them would pass by the will to him, or anyone. There is no question as to mental capacity, nor as to the rights of creditors, nor in any way as to the right and power of the testator to give or dispose of these securities to Loomis, or the beneficiaries, or anyone else, in any manner he might see fit. The sole inquiry is as to the effect of of what he did do. He could control the disposition of his estate after his death only by will, executed according to the statute of wills; but he could divest himself of this property during life by mere delivery and transfer, such as he fully accomplished. Had there been no reservations, there could have been no question. But these reservations were all optional and personal to himself. If he did not exercise his right to them, they were gone. He died without exercising the right, and it expired with him, leaving the property absolutely gone ont of his 'estate, and wholly beyond the orator's rights. The transaction was in Vermont, (governed by Vermont laws,) which fully uphold it in this view. Blanchard v. Sheldon, 43 Vt. 512. Upon the case made, there is no relief to which the orator is entitled. Let there be a decree dismissing the bill, with costs.
SPINK
v.
FRANCIS
and others. 1 SAME. 1
BROWN
[Circuit Court, E. D. Louisiana. February 20, 1884.) CONTElIIPT.
Where the acts of the defendants were violations of the orders of the court when strictly considered and construed, and where the defendants in thei; s'Worn answers purge themselves of any intentional violation of the court's orders, and may have misconceived the responsibility for the acts committed, the court reserved for future consideration, in connection with subsequent conduct the doings of the defendants as presented by the evidence, and taxed against them the costs of the rules.
On Rule for Contempt. A. G. Brice, Joseph P. Hornor, and F. W. Baker, for complainants. James R. Beckwith, for defendants. BILLINGS, J. These causes are before us on rules for contempt. The cases show the issuance of the injunctions and the defendants' knowledge of them by service or otherwise. It also appears that the 1 Reported
by Joseph P. Hornor, Esq, , of the New Orleans bar.