Creesy v. Willis

This is a petition in equity by the executors of the will of Lois A. Willis, asking the instructions of this court as to the construction of the will of their testatrix. From the report of the single justice who heard the case, the following facts appear.

The only clause of the will material to the questions before us is the following: “ I give and bequeath to my husband, Robert Burton Willis, my household furniture, barn and house and land, No. 93 Francis St., Brookline, where we now live, outright, and the income of all my real and personal estate as long as he lives; after his death it is…