Frost v. Courtis

Francis Courtis, being seised of the two parcels of real estate named in the petition, namely, a house and land on Back Street in Marblehead, and Baker’s Island in Salem Harbor, died testate, June 15, 1870, leaving a widow, Jane Courtis, the respondent, a son, Francis Mason Courtis, and two grandchildren, who were children of a deceased son, the petitioner Rebecca C. Frost being one of the grandchildren. When the case was originally tried in the Superior Court, the respondent claimed as a part of her defence that by the death of the testator’s son, Robert Harris Courtis, who died before the…