President of Harvard College v. Gore
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal from a decree of the judge of probate for the county of Middlesex approving and allowing the last will and testament of Christopher Gore.
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Appeal from a decree of the judge of probate for the county of Middlesex approving and allowing the last will and testament of Christopher Gore. The reason of the appeal was, that the testator, at the time of his decease, was an inhabitant of and resident in the county of Suffolk, and not an inhabitant of or resident in the county of Middlesex, and the jur¡s(jjctjon for taking the probate of the will belonged exclusively to the judge of probate for the county of Suffolk- The testator was born in Boston, in the county of Suffolk, in the year 1758, and was a member of his father’s family until…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was afterwards drawn up by
Parker C. J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the judge of probate of wills Stc. for the county of Middlesex, proving and allowing the last will and testament of Christopher Gore.
The only reason of appeal filed in the probate office, conformably to the statute, is, that at the time of his decease Mr. Gore was an inhabitant of and resident in the city of Boston, n the county of Suffolk, by reason whereof the jurisdiction over the will was in the judge of probate for the county of Suffolk, and not in the judge of probate for the county of…
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