Legal Opinion

Mansfield v. Mansfield

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided December 28, 1883PublishedCited by 3 opinions

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…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Giles v. LittleSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
  2. Green v. HewittIllinois Supreme Court · 1880
  3. Parsons v. WinslowMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1810
  4. Dumey v. SchœfflerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1857

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Maddox v. YoeCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1913
  2. Cowman v. GlosIllinois Supreme Court · 1912
  3. Stephenson v. United StatesDistrict Court, W.D. New York · 1965

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