Little v. Silveira
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ op entry in the Land Court dated October 15, 1908, by the heirs at law of Nathaniel Haskell to recover possession of his homestead in the town of Rochester, against the sole devisee under the will of Eugenia L. Haskell, the last surviving daughter of Nathaniel, who died unmarried in 1907 at the age of eighty-nine years.
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Writ op entry in the Land Court dated October 15, 1908, by the heirs at law of Nathaniel Haskell to recover possession of his homestead in the town of Rochester, against the sole devisee under the will of Eugenia L. Haskell, the last surviving daughter of Nathaniel, who died unmarried in 1907 at the age of eighty-nine years. In the Land Court the case was tried before Davis, J., who ruled that the title to the demanded premises was in the tenant and ordered judgment for the tenant. The demandants alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
By his will Nathaniel Haskell, after making provisions for his wife and giving to his sons certain outlying lands, devised the homestead to his three unmarried daughters, “to them and their heirs as tenants in common, all the residue and remainder of my estate, real and personal, so long as they shall respectively remain sole and unmarried, and if either of them should marry, my will is that those who remain single, shall have and enjoy the portion so devised to the one so marrying, they paying to the one marrying the sum of three hundred dollars, in six months from her marriage, and the…
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