Batt v. Vittum

This is an appeal from a decree of the Probate Court allowing the will of A. Marion Merrill, late of Concord, deceased. The appellant is described in the petition for probate as an heir-at-law and next of kin of the deceased.

The will as executed consists — in addition to formal recitals — of four separate numbered paragraphs. By each of paragraphs numbered I and II a pecuniary legacy was given to an educational institution. Paragraph numbered III was a residuary clause providing that “All the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate, of whatever nature or sort, and wherever the same may be…