Keegan v. Norton

This is an appeal from a final decree ordering the respondent to pay to the petitioner the balance due on a legacy of $5,000 given to her under the will of Mary A. Sheehan. The petitioner appeals on the ground that the respondent should also have been ordered to transfer thirty-nine shares of a certain corporation or their value.

The testatrix, Mary A. Sheehan, executed her will on February 14, 1942, in which she nominated the respondent, her cousin, as the executor and gave him the residue of her estate. The will contained the following provision: “Item 2 — ‘To Lillian Keegan of said…