Man's relatives set for inheritance payout - 92 years after his death

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Most advisers are lucky if they can get clients to even consider making a will, but Wellington Burt was one man who didn't need any encouraging.

The Michigan lumber tycoon, pictured, died in 1919, but thanks to his bizarrely complicated will, his descendents will not get their inheritance until the end of this month; that's a 92 years after his death. Burt left a multi-million fortune when he died, but specified, either out of spite, eccentricity or a combination of the two, that the cash could not be released until 21 years after the death of his last surviving grandchild. The nest egg is now worth a whopping £67.5m. Marion Lansill, the last of his grandchildren, died in November 1989, triggering a countdown that ended last N...

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