Supreme Court of Alabama January 15, 1856 (Travis v. Morrison)

WALKER, J.

The single question in this case is, whether tile bequests to the testator’s wife and children were vested or contingent interests.

The law inclines to regard legacies as vested, rather than contingent, because it is presumed that the testator had in view the interests of the legatee who is the object of his *498bounty. — Shattuck v. Stedman, 2 Pick. 468; Savage v. Benham, 17 Ala.