Merrill v. Bickford

The will of Judith W. Edgecomb, among other bequests and devises, contains the following :

“Twelfth. I give and bequeath to W. F. Bickford a lot of land known as the Coleman lot, and being the same I purchased of Thos. E. Fox; also four oxen and two cows, the same now on the farm ; and said Bickford shall pay or cause to be paid to Thos. IT. Merrill, my brother, the sum of sixty dollars per year during the natural lives of said Thos. II. Merrill and his present wife.”

I. Was this annuity a charge upon the land therein devised? We think it was. When the same sentence or clause by which land is…