Coffin v. Attorney General
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Probate Court for the county of Essex on February 9, 1918, by the trustees under the eighth and residuary article of the will of Charles H. Coffin, late of Newburyport, for instructions as to the distribution of the trust fund under the circumstances stated in the opinion.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Probate Court for the county of Essex on February 9, 1918, by the trustees under the eighth and residuary article of the will of Charles H. Coffin, late of Newburyport, for instructions as to the distribution of the trust fund under the circumstances stated in the opinion. The Probate Court made a decree that the fund in the petitioners’ hands, both income and principal, should be paid forthwith to such charitable organizations as Frances E. Coffin, -the testator’s widow, should appoint. The administrator of the estate of Mary E. Coffin, who was the testator’s…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The testator, after creating certain trusts which were to continue during the lives of the respective beneficiaries and making pecuniary gifts to several charities, provided in the eighth or residuary clause of his will that, “The remainder of my Property both real and personal I give in Trust to my wife Frances E. Coffin & Mary E. Coffin to be used by them if their real wants are not supplied from any failure of income from their own property to give them a generous support or Lizzie M. Coffin or. any other near relative the interest on the same to be used as it is needed for such purposes.
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