Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Reed
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on January-13, 1917, by the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, a corporation, as the executor of the will of Andrew R. Winslow, late of Boston, for instructions. The case came on to be heard by Crosby, J., upon the pleadings and an agreed statement of facts. The clause of the codicil to the will of the testator which was to be interpreted is quoted in the opinion.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on January-13, 1917, by the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, a corporation, as the executor of the will of Andrew R. Winslow, late of Boston, for instructions. The case came on to be heard by Crosby, J., upon the pleadings and an agreed statement of facts. The clause of the codicil to the will of the testator which was to be interpreted is quoted in the opinion. Among the agreed facts were the following: Andrew R. Winslow, the testator, was the only son of John B. Winslow and Polly Robinson Winslow. At the time of her marriage to the…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The main question involved in this bill for instructions as to the construction of the will of Andrew R. Winslow is, whether in the first article of the codicil to his will he gave to Amelia Ann Greene, Mary Elizabeth Whitaker, Charles N. Winslow and the issue of Wanton T. Sherman one bequest to them as a class or separate bequests to each of them. Charles N. Winslow having died after the date of the codicil and before the death of the testator, leaving no issue, his legacy lapsed and passed into the residue, if it was a separate legacy. R. L. c. 135, § 21. Howland v. Slade, 155 Mass. 415. If…
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