Peoples First National Bank & Trust Company, Under the Will of Sarah G. Ricketson, Deceased v. United States

BIGGS, Chief Judge.

Sarah G. Ricketson, the decedent, was the daughter of John Ricketson who died testate in 1900. By his will Ricketson devised his family homestead in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to his wife Clementine for life with remainder to his two sons, Oliver and John, Jr. Sarah was given the right to select a plot of ground out of the homestead of sufficient size to erect, should she wish to do so, a house with “a convenient curtilage,” to have and to hold the plot of ground during the term of her natural life. Ricketson’s will further provided that if Sarah erected a house on the plot…