Webster v. Wiggin
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Bill in Equity for instructions. Chase Wiggin died February 23, 1891, leaving a will dated January 13, 1883, which was admitted to probate by the Municipal Court of the city of Providence, March 24, 1891. By this will the testator, directs the payment of his debts and funeral expenses and the purchase of a burial lot, gives legacies to his nephews and grand-nieces, and then continues as follows: I give and bequeath to the town of Meredith, in the State of New Hampshire, the…
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Bill in Equity for instructions. Chase Wiggin died February 23, 1891, leaving a will dated January 13, 1883, which was admitted to probate by the Municipal Court of the city of Providence, March 24, 1891. By this will the testator, directs the payment of his debts and funeral expenses and the purchase of a burial lot, gives legacies to his nephews and grand-nieces, and then continues as follows: I give and bequeath to the town of Meredith, in the State of New Hampshire, the sum of Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00) to be by said town applied to the following purposes in the proportion and in…
1Opinion of the CourtDouglas, J.
The scheme of the will, upon which the questions suggested to us arise, is briefly as follows : The testator, after directing payment of his debts and funeral expenses, and the purchase of a place for his burial, makes a specific bequest of certain property used by him in the practice of his medical profession to one of his nephews. He then directs his executors to collect his book accounts and othér credits, and to manage his 'other estate, real and personal, and, out of the proceeds of the book accounts and credits, and the income of the estate, to pay the expenses of administration, and…
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