Welch v. Colt
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk, by the trustees under the will of Stephen Westcott, late of Boston, who died on June 13, 1874, for instructions as to the distribution of the residue of his estate.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk, by the trustees under the will of Stephen Westcott, late of Boston, who died on June 13, 1874, for instructions as to the distribution of the residue of his estate. The Probate Court made a decree that the heirs at law of Emma W. Bullock, namely, Edith Russell Chesebrough and Westcote Herreshoff Chesebrough, were entitled to the personal property in the hands of the plaintiffs as trustees under the will of Stephen Westcott, the income of which was paid to Emma W. Bullock during her life. Elizabeth M. Colt, executrix of the…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is a bill by the trustees under the will of Stephen Westcott, who died in 1874, for instructions as to the distribution of a part of his estate.
That will gave the residue of the estate to trustees. The income was divided into five equal parts (with certain deductions and annuities not now material), the income of four such parts was given to each of four children of the testator during their respective lives, and that of the other fifth part to the children of a deceased daughter. This bill concerns the share of a daughter, as to which the decisive words of the will are, “One fifth part…
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