Minns v. Billings
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed June 3, 1902, by the surviving executors under the will of Robert C. Billings, late of Boston, for instructions. The case came on to be heard before Hammond, J., who by agreement of parties and at the request of counsel reserved it upon the bill and answers for determination by the full court.
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Bill in equity, filed June 3, 1902, by the surviving executors under the will of Robert C. Billings, late of Boston, for instructions. The case came on to be heard before Hammond, J., who by agreement of parties and at the request of counsel reserved it upon the bill and answers for determination by the full court. The clause under which the executors acted, in making the distribution of residue in regard to which they asked for instructions, was contained in the seventh and last codicil to the will, dated February 6, 1899, and was as follows: “ Whereas by said will I provided that ‘ any sums…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The plaintiffs, surviving executors of the will of Robert C. Billings late of Boston, deceased, have received, under the will and the seventh codicil, all the rest, residue and remainder of his estate after paying legacies, in trust to apply the whole or any part of the principal and income “ to such charitable purposes ” as to them may seem proper. They propose to apply various sums from the fund in their hands to one hundred and twenty-six different objects and purposes which are set out in this bill, and they ask the instructions of the court as to whether some of these objects and…
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