Dupont v. Pelletier
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. A bill in equity seeking the construction of the will of Pierre Emmanuel Dupont, who died December 9, 1915, testate, and after specific bequests to relatives, gave the residuum of his estate to the Community of Carmelites, a religious corporation located at Montreal, Canada.
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On report. A bill in equity seeking the construction of the will of Pierre Emmanuel Dupont, who died December 9, 1915, testate, and after specific bequests to relatives, gave the residuum of his estate to the Community of Carmelites, a religious corporation located at Montreal, Canada. He was a French Canadian, a Roman Catholic Priest, and for thirty-five years next prior to his death had been pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Biddeford, Maine, his parishioners all being either French Canadians or their descendents. Under the terms of the will the residuum of the estate was in trust for the…
1Opinion of the CourtSpear, J.
This case involves the interpretation of the will of Pierre Emmanuel Dupont of Biddeford.
The first clause reads as follows: “I give, bequeathe and devise all my estate, real, personal and mixed, wherever found and wherever situated, to the Community of Carmelites located and established in Montreal, in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, in trust nevertheless, to hold to them and to their successors in trust, for-the following purposes:
1. To pay to my nephew, Dr. Eugene Panneton, annually during his lifetime, the .sum of five hundred dollars, when he shall become permanently…
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