Bigelow v. Clap
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition to the judge of probate of the county of Suffolk, by Joseph S. Bigelow, trustee under the will of Joseph Smith, praying the instructions of the court as to his duties thereunder.
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Petition to the judge of probate of the county of Suffolk, by Joseph S. Bigelow, trustee under the will of Joseph Smith, praying the instructions of the court as to his duties thereunder. The judge decreed that the residue be distributed in equal shares among ninety-three persons named, “ said above named persons being and including all the nephews and nieces of the testator living at the death of Anne, daughter of the testator, being children of the testator’s brother and sisters; also all the grand-nephews and grand-nieces of the testator living at the death of said Anne, being the…
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
Joseph Smith devised the residue of his estate to a trustee, in trust to pay the income thereof to his daughter Anne for her life; and, upon her death, to pay two tenths of the residue, in equal parts, share and share alike, to the then surviving children and grandchildren of his sister Anne L. Crocker; two other tenths of the residue, in like equal parts, to the then surviving children and grandchildren of his brother Albert Smith; two other tenths of the residue, in like equal parts, to the then suiwiving children and grandchildren of his deceased sister Mary Whittier; one tenth part of the…
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