Denny v. Kettell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, by the executor of and trustee under the will of Henry Bartlett, to obtain the instructions of the court as to the construction of the will. Hearing before 0. Allen, J., who reserved the case for the consideration of the full court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtC. Allen, J.
The testator left a fund, consisting of both real and personal property, in trust, 1st, to pay the net income to his wife for her life; 2d, after her death, to pay from the principal of the fund certain specific sums to various persons and *139societies; 3d, to pay the net income of the residue to two persons, and the survivor of them; 4th, after the decease of the survivor, to pay a certain specific sum to Harvard University ; and 5th, to pay over “ all the residue of said trust fund, in equal portions, to my surviving nephews and nieces.” At the testator’s death, ten nephews and nieces were…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hulburt v. EmersonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1819
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