Bullard v. Chandler
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed December 11, 1886, by the executors of the will of Mary D. Whitney, for instructions. The case was heard before Field, J., who reported it for the consideration of the full court, and was as follows.
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Bill in equity, filed December 11, 1886, by the executors of the will of Mary D. Whitney, for instructions. The case was heard before Field, J., who reported it for the consideration of the full court, and was as follows. Mary D. Whitney died on July 15, 1886, and her will, which was dated February 9, 1884, and was duly admitted to probate, named the plaintiffs as executors and trustees, and, besides many gifts to relatives, including her three sisters and the children of a deceased brother and sister, and to friends and servants, contained the following provisions which are alone material: “…
1Opinion of the CourtDeyens, J.
This is a bill for instructions, filed by the executors of the will of Mai-y D. Whitney, as to the interpretation to be given to two paragraphs therein, numbered respectively “secondly” and “ fourteenthly.”
The first of these paragraphs is as follows : “ Secondly, I give and bequeath to my friend, Eev. Seth Chandler, of Shirley, the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), which after his death shall revert to the town afore named, strictly on this condition, namely, that said town shall support fairly and permanently a *536Unitarian clergyman, in which case all interest accruing on above sum shall…
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