Lovering v. Balch
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Probate Court for Worcester County on October 16,1910, by the administrator of the estate of Ellen M. Pierce, late of Leominster, for instructions as to what disposition should be made by him of property which his intestate had received under the will and codicil of her father, Francis Balch, late of Leominster.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Probate Court for Worcester County on October 16,1910, by the administrator of the estate of Ellen M. Pierce, late of Leominster, for instructions as to what disposition should be made by him of property which his intestate had received under the will and codicil of her father, Francis Balch, late of Leominster. The defendants, besides the Attorney General of the Commonwealth, were the husband and the heirs at law and next of kin of Ellen M. Pierce. The contention of the heirs at law and néxt of kin, as stated in their answers, was that under the will and codicil…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
Francis Balch executed a will in 1869, by which he created a life interest of substantially "all his property, consisting of both real and personal estate, for the benefit of his wife, and gave the remainder to be equally divided between his three children, Ellen, Ravella and Oscar. Ellen, then unmarried, subsequently married, and in the autumn of 1875 was grievously sick, and had not recovered in January, 1876, when the testator executed a codicil as follows: u Know all men by these presents, that I, Francis Balch, of Leominster, in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts…
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