Claflin v. Ashton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, by the trustees under the will of John Ash-ton, to obtain the instructions of the court. Hearing before Morton, J., who reserved the case for the consideration of the full court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The will of John Ashton gives the residue and remainder of his property, at the death of his widow, to trustees, who by the fourth article are to pay certain legacies to his grandchildren George A. Lunt and Mary U. Goodrich. The fifth article provides that, the above-named legacies being paid, the trustees shall receive the rents and profits of the residue, and, after paying necessary charges and expenses, shall “divide the residue of such rents and profits, in equal shares, among my then surviving children, during their lives, so much of the share of any minor child, as in the judgment of…
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