Rhines v. Wentworth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal from a decree of the Probate Court of the County of Norfolk, made by Flint, J., on December 15, 1909, allowing the first and final account of John B. Rhines, as executor of the will of Helen M. Rhines, filed by Avis E. Rhines, the executrix of the will of John B. Rhines, and Contract or tort by the administrator de bonis non with the will annexed of the estate of Helen M. Ehines against the executrix of the will of John B. Ehines, with a count in contract for $35,000,…
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Appeal from a decree of the Probate Court of the County of Norfolk, made by Flint, J., on December 15, 1909, allowing the first and final account of John B. Rhines, as executor of the will of Helen M. Rhines, filed by Avis E. Rhines, the executrix of the will of John B. Rhines, and Contract or tort by the administrator de bonis non with the will annexed of the estate of Helen M. Ehines against the executrix of the will of John B. Ehines, with a count in contract for $35,000, referring to an annexed copy of the will of Helen M. Ehines, and a Count in tort for an alleged conversion of certain…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
By the fourth clause of her will, Helen M. Rhines devised and bequeathed the residue of her estate including her homestead and land thereto belonging, to her brother John B. Rhines, “to have and to hold, use and improve the same, without the intervention of any trustee, for and during his natural fife; and on his decease I give, devise and bequeath whatever may then be remaining of said rest and residue and accumulations, if any, to said town of Weymouth” to be used for public purposes. John B. Rhines, who also was the executor of the will, having died without rendering any probate account,…
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