White v. Stowell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeals by two different creditors from a decree of the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk allowing the will of Henry W. Wellington, who died in the city of New York in the State of New York on July 29, 1915, and was alleged to have been a resident of Boston at the time of his death.
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Appeals by two different creditors from a decree of the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk allowing the will of Henry W. Wellington, who died in the city of New York in the State of New York on July 29, 1915, and was alleged to have been a resident of Boston at the time of his death. The appellants stated as their objections to the decree appealed from “that Henry W. Wellington was domiciled in the city of New York in the county and State of New York at the time of his death, and that therefore probate proceedings concerning any alleged will of said Henry W. Wellington should first be…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
This is an appeal from a decree allowing the will of Henry W. Wellington, alleged to have been a resident of Boston on July 29, 1915, the date of his death. The appellants contend that the testator was a resident of New York. In the Supreme Judicial Court the single justice found that the domicil of the testator was -in Boston and affirmed the decree of the Probate Court.
Henry W. Wellington was born in Boston in 1875; after his marriage in 1902 he lived in Hingham and in Boston; and in 1914 his domicil was in Boston where he occupied an apartment which he had leased for two years beginning…
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