Hartwell v. Tefft

The will of Dexter Thur ber, late of Providence,' left a fund to trustees to pay the income, in stated proportions, to children and grandchildren, and upon their death to pay their respective portions to their lawful issue, and, if any of them should die without leaving lawful issue, then a gift over. The testator left a granddaughter, Emma Thurber Brown, who married Lyman B. Tefft. She died leaving no issue of her body ; but, after the death of the testator, she joined her husband in a petition to the Municipal Court of Providence for the adoption of the respondent, Mary Abby Tefft, the…