Mansfield v. Mansfield
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Bill in equity. Heard on bill and demurrer. The opinion states the facts.
1Opinion of the CourtBarrows, J.
William Mansfield, who died in 1874, left a will, executed in 1872, and since his death duly probated, whereby he devised to his beloved- wife Grace, one of the complainants, all his "property and estate of any description and wherever situate, to hold the same so long as she shall remain [his] my widow. ” By the second item he devised to his son William H. the respondent here, two-thirds of the same property and estate " upon the termination of the estate of my wife therein, " upon condition that he pay to a daughter of the testator one hundred dollars, " when he comes into possession of…
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