In re Irish's Will
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from a decree of the probate court construing the will of E. M. Irish, Helen Harlow, appellant. Heard on an agreed statement at the September Term, 1911, Washington County, Taylor, J., presiding. Judgment affirming the decree of the probate court, which decreed the fund in question one-half to Helen Harlow and one-half to the testator’s brothers and sisters, or their legal representatives. The appellant excepted. The opinion states the case.
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Appeal from a decree of the probate court construing the will of E. M. Irish, Helen Harlow, appellant. Heard on an agreed statement at the September Term, 1911, Washington County, Taylor, J., presiding. Judgment affirming the decree of the probate court, which decreed the fund in question one-half to Helen Harlow and one-half to the testator’s brothers and sisters, or their legal representatives. The appellant excepted. The opinion states the case. Since Helen Harlow is the testator’s “lawful heir,” she takes both halves of the fund in question. Hodges v. Phelps, 65 Vt. 308; Daggett v. Slack,…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
E. M. Irish died testate on September 17, 1895, aged fifty-six years. By the twelfth clause of his will, in case his mother, Lucy McClintock, should survive him, he gave and placed in the care of a trustee the sum of four thousand dollars upon trust that said sum and the income and interest arising thereon should be used and expended as needed and required for the support of the said mother for the term of her natural life, and to defray the expenses of her funeral and burial, and so much of said sum with the accrued interest thereon, as should be remaining at the decease and burial of the…
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