Hatch v. . Bassett

The only appeal taken from the judgment is by the plaintiff from that part declaring the legacies given by the fourth clause of the will absolute, unaccompanied by any suspension of ownership. This is the only question before the court. The testator, upon the judgment as given by the first clause, directs his executors to sell all his real and personal estate. This was an equitable conversion of the real into personal, and the entire estate must be regarded as personal. By the second clause he gave the plaintiff, his wife, an annuity of $175, payable yearly out of the rents and income of his…