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Union Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Wooster

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided October 10, 1925PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtDunn, J.

This case was reported on bill and answers to obtain the legal construction of certain clauses in a will.

Charles L. Marston lived in Bangor. He drew his own will. The document was proved and allowed soon following his death in 1895. It creates two trusts. The peculiar testamentary phraseology, as the call is to construe, is this:

"Second......I also give her (meaning his wife) fifty dollars per month so long as she remains my widow and wish my administrators to pay it to her the first day of each and every month so long as she so remains and I wish the sum of two thousand dollars to be…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Smith T. v. BellSupreme Court of the United States · 1832
  2. Doe v. ConsidineSupreme Court of the United States · 1868
  3. Lincoln v. PerryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. George v. WidemireSupreme Court of Alabama · 1942
  2. Henkel v. AuchstetterSupreme Court of Iowa · 1949
  3. Rowett v. McFarlandSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1986
  4. Wyman v. KinneySupreme Court of Vermont · 1940
  5. First National Bank v. DeWolfeSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1936

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