Smith v. American Missionary Ass'n
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Probate Court on March 8, 1921, by the executor of the will of Mary A. Smith, late of Worcester, for instructions. The pleadings are described in the opinion. The suit was reported by Forbes, J., to this court for determination upon the bill, answers and certain agreed facts, described in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The will of Mary A. Smith was executed on February 21, 1900. In clauses two to seven, inclusive, legacies were bequeathed to certain corporations, and by clauses eight to seventeen inclusive, legacies were given to the individual legatees named. By the eighteenth clause of the will the testatrix •directed her executor to convert the rest and residue of her estate into cash "to be divided equally between all of the above named legatees living at the time of my decease. ” The executor in his bill in equity in the Probate Court asks to be instructed whether the eighteenth clause of the will…
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