Harlow v. Bailey
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two bills IN' equity, the first filed November 26, 1904, in the Probate Court for the county of Middlesex, coming to the Supreme Judicial Court by appeal, and the second filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on December 15, 1904, the first by the executors under the will of Sarah R. Harlow, late of Everett, for instructions, and the second by the heirs at law of Abby R. Fletcher, late of Everett, to establish and quiet their title to certain land in Everett, and to remove any…
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Two bills IN' equity, the first filed November 26, 1904, in the Probate Court for the county of Middlesex, coming to the Supreme Judicial Court by appeal, and the second filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on December 15, 1904, the first by the executors under the will of Sarah R. Harlow, late of Everett, for instructions, and the second by the heirs at law of Abby R. Fletcher, late of Everett, to establish and quiet their title to certain land in Everett, and to remove any cloud therefrom caused by the second clause of the will of Sarah R. Harlow. The first case came on to be heard before…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The first of these cases is a bill for instructions, on which the single justice reported to this court five questions in regard to the construction of the will of Sarah R. *212Harlow, deceased. The second is a petition to quiet or establish the title to land, brought by some of the heirs at law of Sarah R. Harlow against the other heirs and the residuary legatees of said deceased. The question of law raised on the second petition is the same as the first question reported by the single justice on the first petition.
1. The second clause of the will vested in Abby R. Fletcher a life estate with a…
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