Hatfield v. Sohier
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for money had and received by the defendants to the plaintiff’s use. The plaintiff filed the following specification of his claim : “ Moneys collected by defendants as rent and income from real estate in the city of Boston, of which Ann Maria Hatfield, late of Medford, and wife of the plaintiff, died seised, and which rents belong to the plaintiff as tenant by the curtes ' The answer was a general denial.
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Contract for money had and received by the defendants to the plaintiff’s use. The plaintiff filed the following specification of his claim : “ Moneys collected by defendants as rent and income from real estate in the city of Boston, of which Ann Maria Hatfield, late of Medford, and wife of the plaintiff, died seised, and which rents belong to the plaintiff as tenant by the curtes ' The answer was a general denial. The case was, in the Superior Court, submitted upon an agreed statement of facts ; from which it appeared that one Mrs. Coleman, a widow, and the mother of the plaintiff’s deceased…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The question submitted to us is whether the plaintiff is tenant by the curtesy in any of the estates held by the defendants as trustees under the will of his wife. As sha held the estates in part under the will of her mother, and in part *52under the will of her brother, it is necessary to determine what estate she took under each will.
1. The will of Mrs. Coleman is inartificially drawn, but we think it is not difficult to ascertain from it the intention of the testatrix. She devises certain estates “ to Ann Louisa Hatfield, the wife of Charles Horatio Hatfield, of said Boston, to her sole and…
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