Wilcox v. Attorney General
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill IN equity, filed in the Probate Court for the county of Bristol on October 7, 1909, for the construction of the will of Ariadne J. Borden, late of Fall River. By the first clause of the will $1,000 was bequeathed to the testatrix’s friend, Abbie C. Anthony. By the second clause $500 was given to each of six other friends.
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Bill IN equity, filed in the Probate Court for the county of Bristol on October 7, 1909, for the construction of the will of Ariadne J. Borden, late of Fall River. By the first clause of the will $1,000 was bequeathed to the testatrix’s friend, Abbie C. Anthony. By the second clause $500 was given to each of six other friends. The third clause bequeathed a sum not exceeding $5,000 to the executor, “ the same to be expended in work on my cemetery lot . . . on monuments, curbing, grading et cetera, as suggested to him in our personal conversations about this matter and the plan given to Abbie…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The testatrix in the fourth clause of her will devised and bequeathed the residue of her estate “ to Henry H. Earl... in trust, nevertheless, to carry out certain other purposes of mine mentioned to him and to Abbie C. Anthony . . . and relating to certain benevolent and charitable institutions and associations; to a clock tower and clock in memory of my sister Mary Amanda Borden; to the use of our old homestead estate as a memorial to my mother Eliphal Tucker Borden to be known as the ‘ Eliphal Tucker Borden Park Play Grounds’ et cetera. And I hereby give to my said trustee full power and…
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