Bates v. Webb
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The petitioners prayed for one fifth part of the land described in their petition, to be set off to them in severalty in right of said Mary.
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The petitioners prayed for one fifth part of the land described in their petition, to be set off to them in severalty in right of said Mary. The case was submitted to the Court on the following facts agreed: — John Leach, late of Boston, died on the tenth of June, 1799, seised of the premises, having on the fifth of May, 1788, by his last will and testament, duly executed, and afterwards proved and allowed, devised all his estate as follows, viz.: —“ And as to my worldly estate, real, personal, * and mixed, (after all my just debts and funeral charges are fully paid and satisfied,) I give,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The petitioners are seised in fee simple of a ninth part only of the estate devised, and let a warrant issue to set off the same to them in severalty.
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