Shea v. Davis

The petitioner, formerly Dorothy Davis, seeks to compel the respondent, her brother, to pay to her a legacy of $1,100 given to her under the will of their father, Frederick P. Davis, and in the will charged upon the rents and proceeds of real estate in Boston devised to the respondent.

The will, after providing for the payment of debts and funeral charges, devises the house at 89 Walk Hill Street, with an adjoining lot of land, to the testator’s son Lionel Alfonse Davis (the respondent), and then continues as follows: -

"Out of the rents and proceeds of the estate mentioned He is to pay…