Heard v. Read
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill iít equity, by the trustees under the will of John W. Trull, to obtain the instructions of the court as to its construction.
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Bill iít equity, by the trustees under the will of John W. Trull, to obtain the instructions of the court as to its construction. After giving his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Eldredge, his household furniture, etc. absolutely, and the improvement during her life of his dwelling-house in Beacon Street, Boston, and making a pecuniary provision for his stepson, John T. Heard, and John Theodore Heard, the son of his stepson, he gave the residue, including the reversion of the dwelling-house, to trustees, to pay the net income to Mrs. Elizabeth Eldredge for life, and “ At and after the decease of my…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
This is a bill for instructions, brought by the trustees under the will of John W. Trull. The will is dated November 11,1858. At that time John W. Trull was a widower, between seventy-five and seventy-six years of age, having been bom on May 12, 1783. He died on April 12, 1867. He *219had been married to a Mrs. Heard, a widow, who died before the will was made, and by her he had one child only, a daughter, Elizabeth, who was born on August 29, 1816, and had married a Mr. Eldredge, and she is the person designated as Mrs. Elizabeth Eldredge in the will. At the time the will was made she was in the…
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