Hill v. Bacon
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, by Caroline I. Hill and her husband, and William Dehon, for specific performance of a contract of the defendant to buy from them nine undivided thirty-second parts of a parcel of land in Boston.
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Bill in equity, by Caroline I. Hill and her husband, and William Dehon, for specific performance of a contract of the defendant to buy from them nine undivided thirty-second parts of a parcel of land in Boston. The case, as it appeared from the bill and answer, on which it was reserved by the chief justice for the determination of the full court, was as follows : Caroline M. Dehon, wife of William Dehon, being owner in fee of one undivided half of said parcel, made her will in 1858, by which she devised the said undivided half to her husband for life, and at his decease the remainder to her…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
By the specific devise in Mrs. Dehon’s will, her husband took a life estate, and her children vested remainders in fee absolutely. Pike v. Stephenson, 99 Mass. 188. White v. Curtis, 12 Gray, 54. And the share acquired by her after making her will passed to her husband by the residuary clause. Rev. Sts. s. 62, § 3. Decree for the plaintiffs.
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Pike v. StephensonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
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