Richardson v. Richardson
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Bill in equity by the executor of the last will and testament of Israel Richardson against Thomas H. Richardson, Hannah Harris, Thomas Putnam Richardson, Albert Richardson, Edwina Maud Richardson, Julia Ann Horne, devisees under the will, Jesse Davis, assignee of said Hannah Harris, and the Portland Gas Light Company, to obtain the construction by the court of the fifth clause of the will which is sufficiently recited in the opinion.
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Bill in equity by the executor of the last will and testament of Israel Richardson against Thomas H. Richardson, Hannah Harris, Thomas Putnam Richardson, Albert Richardson, Edwina Maud Richardson, Julia Ann Horne, devisees under the will, Jesse Davis, assignee of said Hannah Harris, and the Portland Gas Light Company, to obtain the construction by the court of the fifth clause of the will which is sufficiently recited in the opinion. Edwina Maud Richardson being under twenty-one years of age, H. R. Yii’gin was appointed guardian ad litem. cited : Schouler’s Domestic Relations, 300; Redf.…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, C. J.
This case presents the following facts : Israel Richardson died in March, 1867, leaving a will which contains these provisions: " I give and bequeath to Hannah Richardson, wife of Thomas H. Richardson, of Norway, in the state of Maine, during her natural life, the income or dividends from my stock or shares in the Portland Gas Light Company; and after the decease of said Hannah, I give and bequeath said income or dividends, during his natural life, to said Thomas H. Richardson ; and from and after the decease of the said Hannah and of said Thomas H. I give and bequeath said income or…
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