Metcalf v. First Parish in Framingham
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity by the executors of the will of George Phipps, to obtain the instructions of the court. Hearing before Kndicott, J., who reserved the case for the determination of the full court, in whose opinion it is stated.
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
The testator by the first article of his will bequeaths to the First Parish in Framingham “ fifty shares of the stock of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company,” and also “ the further sum of five thousand dollars.” By the second article he bequeaths to the town of Framingham the sum of five hundred dollars and fifty shares of the stock of the same corporation. By the third article he bequeaths fifty shares of the same stock to the Association for the Relief of Aged and Indigent Females, and by the fourth article a like number of such shares to the Home for Aged Men, each of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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