Pritchard v. Attorney General

This case involves a charitable devise of real estate in the will of Gwendolyn G. Wilder. The case was initiated by William H. Pritchard, the executor of that will, who brought a complaint in equity requesting instruction from the Plymouth County Division of the Probate and Family Court Department. Although the court held no hearing and admitted no evidence, the parties are in agreement that the decedent’s operative last will and testament conveys the real estate containing her Brockton home “to that certain charitable institution known as *495the BOSTON CHAPTER OF HADASSAH, 2001 Beacon Street,…