Bullard v. Attorney General
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two bills in equity for instructions. The plaintiffs in the first case were the executors and trustees under the will of Mrs. Mary D. Whitney, and the defendants were the Attorney General and the sisters of the testatrix. The plaintiffs in the second case were such sisters, and the defendants were the Attorney General and the executors and trustees. The cases were heard by Knowlton, J., and reserved for the consideration of the full court, and appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The following opinion was written by Mr. Justice Devens, and after his death was adopted as the opinion of the court by the Justices who sat with him at the argument.
The first of these bills is one for instructions, brought by the executors and trustees under the will of Mrs. Mary D. Whitney, which in its fourteenth clause provided for the formation of a fund from the residue of her estate, after the distribution and division had been made of a portion of the estate as specially directed. By the will, this fund was “ to be well invested, the income from which I desire my sisters…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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