Smith v. Haynes
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Essex on November 6,1908, seeking a construction of certain clauses of the will of Phineas Haynes, late of Haverhill, and for instructions in relation thereto. The will contained nineteen clauses regarding the disposition of property. Each of the, first fifteen made a legacy of a specified amount of money to a specified person. The sixteenth gave the testator’s homestead estate to Phineas W. Haynes.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Essex on November 6,1908, seeking a construction of certain clauses of the will of Phineas Haynes, late of Haverhill, and for instructions in relation thereto. The will contained nineteen clauses regarding the disposition of property. Each of the, first fifteen made a legacy of a specified amount of money to a specified person. The sixteenth gave the testator’s homestead estate to Phineas W. Haynes. The seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth clauses are quoted in the opinion. The case was heard by Knowlton, C. J. He…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
This is a bill in equity by executors and trustees praying for instructions as to their duties under the will of Phineas Haynes.
1. The first question presented is as to the shares to which *533the children of Florence Fellows are entitled. This involves the construction of the following clause: “ Seventeenth I give and bequeath the Ballance of my real Estate and Personal Property to my Heirs as follows to the 8 Children of my Nephue Arthur W. Haynes 8 shares to the 8 children of my Niece Florence Fellows 8 shares and my said Niece one Share and to George A. Haynes son of my Grand Nephue Allison…
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