Dexter v. Attorney General
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on February 7, 1916, by the trustee under the will of Martha Parsons, late of Milton, who died on May 15, 1899, for instructions as to the distribution of the trust fund to be made by reason of the death on November 5, 1915, of the last survivor of the mother, sister and brother of the testatrix to whom the net income of such fund had been payable during their joint lives.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on February 7, 1916, by the trustee under the will of Martha Parsons, late of Milton, who died on May 15, 1899, for instructions as to the distribution of the trust fund to be made by reason of the death on November 5, 1915, of the last survivor of the mother, sister and brother of the testatrix to whom the net income of such fund had been payable during their joint lives. The case came on to be heard before Loring, J., who reserved it upon the bill and answers for determination by the full court.
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The testatrix after devising her real property either in fee or upon certain trusts and making gifts of pecuniary legacies under the sixth clause of her will, where she states that the will is to operate not only on the “remainder of my property and estate of every description,” but “including all which I may be in any manner entitled to dispose of, or may be authorized to exercise any power of appointment over, by virtue of any will, deed of trust, settlement of any annuity or other instrument me enabling, or however otherwise,” declared in the sixteenth clause, “All the rest, residue and…
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