Newburyport Society for Relief of Aged Women v. President & Fellows of Harvard College
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
1Opinion of the CourtQua, J.
The object of this petition in equity is to obtain final distribution to the petitioner and the Home for Aged Men in Boston in equal shares of a trust fund of the residue under the will of John Q. A. Williams, late of Boston. The will was admitted to probate in 1889, after a contest had been settled by an agreement of compromise to which all persons interested were parties and which was ratified and confirmed by decree of this court on January 3 of that year. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 204, §§ 15-18. The last annuitant to whom income has been paid under the terms of the trust has recently deceased.
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