Glidden v. Blodgett
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Probate Appeal. Amos Tenney, late of Claremont, in this county, died in May, 1839, leaving a widow, Lucy It. Tenney, and three children, Amos J. Tenney, Emeline E. Tenney, and Lucy E. Pomroy.
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Probate Appeal. Amos Tenney, late of Claremont, in this county, died in May, 1839, leaving a widow, Lucy It. Tenney, and three children, Amos J. Tenney, Emeline E. Tenney, and Lucy E. Pomroy. By his last will and testament, which was duly proved and allowed by the court of probate for this county, after bequeathing sundry legacies, he gave to his widow the use and improvement of all the residue and remainder of his estate, real and personal, during her life ; and after her death he provided that the residue of his estate should be equally divided between his three children and four charitable…
1Opinion of the CourtEowler, J.
By the provisions of the last will of Amos Tenney, upon his death in May, 1839, there vested in his daughter, Emeline E. Tenney, a right to one fourth of the residue or remainder of his estate, real and personal, after payment of his debts, funeral charges, expense of gravestones, and the several legacies enumerated in the first and second clauses of that will, subject to the life estate of his widow, Lucy R. Tenney, therein. This interest of Emeline E., under the will of her father, being an immediate, fixed right of future enjoyment of the fourth of the remainder of her father’s property,…
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