Bacon v. Ransom
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity by the executors of the will of Lizzie F. Bacon, and certain legatees thereunder, against the executor of the will of Eliza F. Eddy, Lucy Stone, wife of H. B. Blackwell, Susan B. Anthony, and other legatees thereunder, and the Attorney General, to compel ■ the executor of said Eddy’s will to pay over to the plaintiffs the residue of her estate.
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Bill in equity by the executors of the will of Lizzie F. Bacon, and certain legatees thereunder, against the executor of the will of Eliza F. Eddy, Lucy Stone, wife of H. B. Blackwell, Susan B. Anthony, and other legatees thereunder, and the Attorney General, to compel ■ the executor of said Eddy’s will to pay over to the plaintiffs the residue of her estate. The bill alleged the following facts : Francis Jackson, the father of said Eliza F. Eddy, died in 1861, leaving a will, by the sixth article of which he gave $5000 to Wendell Phillips, Lucy Stone Blackwell, and Susan B. Anthony, in…
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The fact that the respective portions of the estate bequeathed by Mrs. Eddy to Mrs. Stone and Miss *119Anthony were in amount equal to or precisely the same as those which came to her by descent from her father, Francis Jackson, is not of importance in the case at bar. It had been held in Jackson v. Phillips, 14 Allen, 539, that a certain bequest made by Mr. Jackson in trust was not, legally speaking, a public charity, and that it could not therefore pass to the beneficiaries named in his will. The property which he thus attempted to bequeath descended therefore to his legal representatives, of…
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