Glover v. Glover
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition for a widow’s allowance, filed in the Probate Court on September 22, 1911, by the widow of Clarence F. Glover, late of Waltham, who died on November 20, 1909, and whose will was allowed on December 22, 1911. In the Probate Court the petition was heard by Mclntire, J., who made a decree allowing the petitioner $2,500. On appeal by Seymour Glover, a beneficiary under the will of Clarence F. Glover, the case was heard by Braley, J., a commissioner having been appointed…
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Petition for a widow’s allowance, filed in the Probate Court on September 22, 1911, by the widow of Clarence F. Glover, late of Waltham, who died on November 20, 1909, and whose will was allowed on December 22, 1911. In the Probate Court the petition was heard by Mclntire, J., who made a decree allowing the petitioner $2,500. On appeal by Seymour Glover, a beneficiary under the will of Clarence F. Glover, the case was heard by Braley, J., a commissioner having been appointed to take the evidence, and a decree was made remanding the case to the Probate Court with directions to modify the…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
This is an appeal from a decree granting to the petitioner a widow’s allowance in the sum of $1,500. The case is before us on the evidence introduced before the single justice who made the decree, excepting however that the exhibits introduced in evidence before him have not been printed. The evidence is far from satisfactory. It leaves in a state of confusion the facts on which the questions of the petitioner’s right to an allowance and of the amount of it depend. The appellee has not objected to the failure to print the exhibits, and we take the case as it is presented to us without…
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