Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Coffin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bile in equity, brought by the trustee under the will of Jared Coffin as tbe successor of the trustees named therein, for instructions as to the disposition of one seventh of the estate. Holmes, J., reserved the case, at the request of all the parties, for the consideration of the full court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The whole of the testator’s estate was devised and bequeathed to three trustees, Israel Whitney, Thaddeus Nichols, and Henry A. Kelly, for the various purposes which appear in the successive clauses of his will. The estate was to be divided into seven equal parts, each of which was to be held as a separate and distinct fund. Of the seven shares, the interest, income, etc. of five of them were bequeathed respectively to his five children then living, for their natural lives, and at their deaths to be divided among their children or the issue of such children. If either of them died and left no…
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