Attorney General v. Soule

This case comes up by appeal from a decree dismissing an information which was filed by the attorney general by direction of the governor.

• The information was based upon paragraphs in the 4th and 8th clauses of the last will of the late Ambrose L. Soule. The 8th clause is as follows: “ Eighth, I do further order and direct my said executors to set apart a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to be derived from the sale of my real and personal estate sold, and that may remain unsold, or otherwise, after having first provided for or paid *154over to each one of my said children the snm of five…