Gaff v. Cornwallis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Probate Court for the County of Bristol on July 21,1911, seeking to have the defendant Cornwallis, as executor of the will of Lucy Ellis Tisdale, late of New Bedford, ordered to deliver to the plaintiff the property hereinafter described on the ground that it constituted “the contents, if any, of a drawer in said safe,” which were given to her in a clause of the will set out in the opinion.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Probate Court for the County of Bristol on July 21,1911, seeking to have the defendant Cornwallis, as executor of the will of Lucy Ellis Tisdale, late of New Bedford, ordered to deliver to the plaintiff the property hereinafter described on the ground that it constituted “the contents, if any, of a drawer in said safe,” which were given to her in a clause of the will set out in the opinion. The property was as follows: A bank book numbered 127890 for $1,093, in the New Bedford Institution for Savings, standing in the name of said testatrix, in trust for Olivia H.…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Coitrcy, J.
In the second clause of the will of Lucy Ellis *229Tisdale, the defendant’s testatrix, is the following provision: "To my cousin, Marie Louise Zaidee Ellis Gaff, wife of Thomas T. Gaff, of Barnstable, Massachusetts, all my real estate at or about Glen Charlie, in the town of Wareham, and above Glen Charlie, if any there be, and any and all real estate of whatever nature or description that I may own in Plymouth, Massachusetts. I also give to her my silver pitcher, my large plated silver waiter, all jewelry and bric-a-broc except as hereinafter specifically devised, my wardrobe, cedar chests and…
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