Bartlett v. Slater
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity,-filed in the Probate Court for the County of Worcester July 9, 1902, by the executors under the will of Horatio N. Slater, for instructions as to the construction of that will. An appeal from, the decree of the Probate Court was dismissed by Loring, J. The appellant alleged exceptions, raising the question whether the appeal was properly before the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The petitioners, as executors of the will of Horatio 1ST. Slater, petitioned the Probate Court for the construction of the will of their testator, and for instructions as to their powers and duties thereunder. On October 31, 1902, that court entered a decree thereon, from which decree, on the twenty-eighth day of the following November, Mabel Hunt Slater, as widow of Horatio N. Slater, and also as statutory guardian of Esther Slater, Horatio N. Slater, Mabel H. Slater and William M. H. Slater, minor children of Mabel Hunt Slater and the testator, appealed to this court and filed in the…
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