Massachusetts Institute of Technology v. Attorney General
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on October 16, 1917, and afterwards amended, for the sale of real estate by the residuary devisee under the will of Charles Herbert Pratt, late of Boston. The fifth clause of the will of Charles Herbert Pratt to which reference is made therein is as follows: “ Fifth.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on October 16, 1917, and afterwards amended, for the sale of real estate by the residuary devisee under the will of Charles Herbert Pratt, late of Boston. The fifth clause of the will of Charles Herbert Pratt to which reference is made therein is as follows: “ Fifth. All the rest and residue of my property and estate, real, personal and mixed, wheresoever the same may be situated and of which I may be possessed, or to which I may in any way be entitled at the time of my decease, I give, devise and bequeath unto my trustees hereinafter named,…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
This is a petition of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to sell real estate, conveyed to it by trustees appointed under the will of Charles Herbert Pratt, who died on May 7, 1912, testate. His will, on appeal from the Probate Court, after a trial to a jury, was admitted to probate by a decree of the Supreme Judicial Court on January 8, 1915, and the decree was filed in the Probate Court on January 29, 1915. The trustees under the will were duly appointed on February 18, 1915.
By his will the testator directed the payment of his debts and funeral expenses, the erection of a monument…
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