Bartlett
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, by the executors and trustees under the will of Samuel E. Sawyer, to obtain the instructions of the court as to the construction of the will. The case was heard by Lathrop, J., and reported for the consideration of the full court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
It is convenient to consider the questions in the order in which they arise in the will itself, using for convenience the numbering of the paragraphs made by the petitioners. In the first paragraph the testator gives the burial lot to his execu*512tors and trustees “ who will also have charge of the Homestead Fund, the income of which in part, shall be used to keep the lot and the monument always in good order,” etc. This Homestead Fund appears by the fourth paragraph to be a sum of $12,000, given to the executors and trustees “ to be securely invested in first mortgages on real estate at about…
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