Wood v. Bullard
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity against the defendant, both as trustee of the estate of Caleb Wood and as the executor of the will of Caroline A. Wood, his wife, by the heirs at law of Caleb, for the specific performance of an agreement made by her. Hearing before Holmes, J., who reported the case, with certain portions of the evidence, for the consideration of the full court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtC. Allen, J.
In August, 1877, Caleb Wood died childless, leaving a widow, Caroline A. Wood, and a will wherein he devised the residue of his estate‘to a trustee, in trust, to invest the same and pay over to her such sums or parts thereof as she might from time to time desire, and upon her decease to dispose of the trust fund then remaining as she might by her will direct; and in case she should fail to make a will, then to pay at her decease one half of said trust fund to his heirs at law then surviving, they taking by right of representation, and one half to the heirs at law of his wife, then surviving,…
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