May v. Brewster
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed March 14, 1904, for the registration of the title to a tract of land on the corner of State Street and Broad Street in Boston. In the Land Court the case was heard by Davis, J., who found title in the petitioners proper for registration, but, before a decree in accordance with such finding could issue, one of the petitioners, Frederick W. G. May, died at Boston, testate, seised of an undivided one fifth interest in the real estate in question.
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Petition, filed March 14, 1904, for the registration of the title to a tract of land on the corner of State Street and Broad Street in Boston. In the Land Court the case was heard by Davis, J., who found title in the petitioners proper for registration, but, before a decree in accordance with such finding could issue, one of the petitioners, Frederick W. G. May, died at Boston, testate, seised of an undivided one fifth interest in the real estate in question. Thereafter, the heirs at law of Frederick W. G. May, as petitioners for substitution, filed a suggestion of the death of Frederick W.…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
This is a report from one of the judges of the Land Court upon a petition for the registration of a title. The question arises upon a petition for substitution, suggesting the death of F. W. G. May, one of the original petitioners, and asking to be admitted as successors to his title. He left a will in his own handwriting, which was made by him without the aid of counsel. Our decision depends upon the meaning of this will.
The principal question, to which all others are subordinate, is whether he intended to have the will take effect upon his real estate, or only upon his personal property. He…
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