Adams v. Legroo
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. This is a bill in equity for the construction of the will and codicil of Releía Legroo, brought by the executrix thereof. All of the parties defendant filed answers admitting the various allegations in the bill in equity, and replications thereto were filed.
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On report. This is a bill in equity for the construction of the will and codicil of Releía Legroo, brought by the executrix thereof. All of the parties defendant filed answers admitting the various allegations in the bill in equity, and replications thereto were filed. At the conclusion of the hearing before the presiding Justice, the case was reported to the Law Court upon the following stipulation: In this case, the Justice hearing the same being of the opinion that questions of law are involved of sufficient importance and doubt to justify the same, and the parties agreeing thereto, the…
1Opinion of the CourtKing, J.
The questions presented center about the effect to be given to the codicil to the will of Releía Legroo in view of her husbañd’s waiver of the provisions therein made for him.
By the codicil the testatrix gave in trust to a person therein named the sum of $2000 to be invested by the trustee and, if her husband survived her, the income therefrom, and so much of the principal as should be necessary for his comfortable maintenance and support, was to be used for that purpose, and at his decease, “if any of said fund remains unexpended, then I give, bequeath and devise the balance of the same” to…
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