White v. Stanfield
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed January 14, 1887, by George White, trustee under the will of Henry Robinson, against Rosalba C. Stanfield, Anna E. Robinson, Dora Hidell, and Clifford Brigham, administrator of the estate of Edward Gray Robinson, for instructions as to the disposition of a trust fund.
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Bill in equity, filed January 14, 1887, by George White, trustee under the will of Henry Robinson, against Rosalba C. Stanfield, Anna E. Robinson, Dora Hidell, and Clifford Brigham, administrator of the estate of Edward Gray Robinson, for instructions as to the disposition of a trust fund. The bill alleged that Henry Robinson made a will, dated October 14, 1848, which was, with the exception of parts merely formal, as follows : “ I give to my wife Isabella Robinson all my wearing apparel household furniture horses, carriages, plate, watches, and jewelry, and also my library. “ I give to my…
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The case at bar has been argued somewhat at cross purposes by the counsel who have respectively represented before the court, on the one side, the widow, and on the other, the sister and niece of Edward G. Robinson.
The claim as made on behalf of the widow is, that the fund of $10,000 of which the testator’s son Edward G. was to have *432the income during life is to be treated as a gift of personal property upon his decease to those who were then his next of kin or his distributees, and that by the words “ to his heirs at law ” the testator intended to designate those who would have taken as the…
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