Crowell v. Chapman

This petition sought the construction and interpretation of certain articles of the will of Daniel Hedge, and instructions with regard to the persons to whom the property dealt with by these articles should be distributed. The first eighteen articles and the first codicil gave specific legacies of small amounts. No question arises in regard to these; nor in regard to Article 19, which gave to his widow his “Dwelling House, Barn, and out-buildings, and all of my homestead land, situate in East Dennis, Mass. To have and to hold to her own use and behoof forever.”

The judge of probate decreed…