Rice v. Boston Port & Seaman's Aid Society
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
From Rockingham Circuit Court. In Equity. Arabella Rice, by her will dated May 18,1867, made bequests as follows: First. To each of her first cousins, paternal and maternal, $12,000. Second. To a first cousin of her father, $6,000. Third. To Eliza Rice, $6,000. Fourth. To her late father’s first cousin, Mrs. Edgecombe, and to her daughter, Sarah Edgecombe, $6,000 each. Fifth. To two persons described as her relatives, $6,000 each. Sixth.
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From Rockingham Circuit Court. In Equity. Arabella Rice, by her will dated May 18,1867, made bequests as follows: First. To each of her first cousins, paternal and maternal, $12,000. Second. To a first cousin of her father, $6,000. Third. To Eliza Rice, $6,000. Fourth. To her late father’s first cousin, Mrs. Edgecombe, and to her daughter, Sarah Edgecombe, $6,000 each. Fifth. To two persons described as her relatives, $6,000 each. Sixth. To Hon. Ichabod Goodwin, $6,000. Seventh. To four charitable societies of Portsmouth, $3,000 each,— namely, Portsmouth Marine Society, Domestic Missionary…
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in Lee v. Pain, supra, 201, says the true value of the fact of the presence of the word "more," or "in addition," or the like, in some cases and not in others, is, that it is a circumstance which may corroborate or be corroborated by other facts, and so show some particular intention of the testatrix. Failing to discover a systematic plan of such unbending character as the executor claims, and the execution of the codicil having broken in upon whatever of system there is in the will, there is little to corroborate or be corroborated by the use of the word "more." Undoubtedly there is more or…
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