Rackemann v. Wood
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on April 27, 1906, by the trustee under the will of John Hancock, late of that part of Boston called West Roxbury, for instructions in regard to the persons to whom and the proportions in which he should pay or distribute the personal property in his hands as such trustee.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on April 27, 1906, by the trustee under the will of John Hancock, late of that part of Boston called West Roxbury, for instructions in regard to the persons to whom and the proportions in which he should pay or distribute the personal property in his hands as such trustee. The case came on to be heard before Loring, J., who, at the request of the parties, reserved it upon the pleadings and an agreed statement of facts for determination by the full court, such decree to be entered as justice and equity might require. The case was argued at…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
Under the peculiar facts of this case, we are asked to construe the eighth clause of the will of John Hancock, late of West Roxbury, deceased, which is as follows: “I *503give and bequeath one-fifth of my estate to a trustee upon, trust, to invest the same and appropriate so much of the income thereof as he, in his discretion, shall think needful for the support of my son Washington. It is my will that the trustee may pay over to my son his portion of my estate at such time and in such sums as he may deem expedient, desiring him to consult the interest and welfare of my son, and that my son, in…
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