Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Blanchard
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity by a trustee under a will for instructions, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Suffolk September 15, 1906. At the hearing before Rugg, J., the case was reserved upon the pleadings and an agreed statement of facts for consideration and determination by the full court.
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Bill in equity by a trustee under a will for instructions, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Suffolk September 15, 1906. At the hearing before Rugg, J., the case was reserved upon the pleadings and an agreed statement of facts for consideration and determination by the full court. Besides the facts stated in the opinion, it appeared that the testator, at the time of making his will, had been married three times and that there never had been any issue by any of his marriages except the daughter mentioned in the opinion, who was a child by the second marriage. His third…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
This is a bill in equity for instructions as to the persons to whom shall be paid a trust fund under the will, executed on January 12, 1864, of Thomas Blanchard, who died at the age of seventy-six, on April 15, 1864. The testator left a wife, but no issue by her, and a, daughter by a former marriage. The daughter was a widow, childless, and non compos mentis at the time the will was executed, and continued so until her death in 1867. The testator left no other descendant. His widow subsequently remarried, and died in 1905. The material provision of the will is :
“ I give, devise and bequeath…
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