Nutter v. Vickery
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Bill in equity. This is an amicable bill brought, under R. S., c. 77, § 5, by the executor of the will of Isaiah Yickery, late of Cape Elizabeth, deceased. The testator made his will on the twenty-third day of October, 1873, and died the following day.
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Bill in equity. This is an amicable bill brought, under R. S., c. 77, § 5, by the executor of the will of Isaiah Yickery, late of Cape Elizabeth, deceased. The testator made his will on the twenty-third day of October, 1873, and died the following day. Thirty-one persons, supposed to be immediately or contingently interested, were made parties defendant to the bill, the purpose of which was to obtain a construction of the second, third and seventh clauses of the will aforesaid, which are recited in the opinion. The second clause gave an annuity to the testator’s wife, during her life. By the…
1Opinion of the CourtBarrows, J.
The plaintiff who is executor of the last will and testament of the late Isaiah Yickery, making said Yickery’s numerous legal heirs devisees and legatees parties respondent, seeks in *493this amicable bill, brought under the seventh item of R. S., c. 77, § 5, a construction of certain provisions of the will, and directions from the court as to the mode in which he shall execute the trust therein confided to him. The will was made and executed October 24,1873, and duly admitted to probate November 18, 1873.
The questions arise under the second, third, and seventh items of the will, which are as…
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