Ramsdill v. Wentworth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition to this court for partition of the real estate of William Ramsdill, deceased. At the trial, before Colt, J., the fury returned a verdict for the petitioners, and the respondents alleged exceptions.. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, C. J.
The petitioners are cMldren ol William Ramsdill, deceased, who made his will, by which he devised all his property to his wife, without naming his children or intimating that his omission to provide for them was intentional. The provision of the Gen. Sts. c. 92, § 25, is that “ when a testator omits to provide for any of his children, or for the issue of a deceased child, they shall take the same share of his estate, both real and personal, that they would have been entitled to if he had died intestate, unless they shall have been provided for by the testator in his lifetime, or unless it…
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