Rotch v. Loring
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, by the administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Benjamin S. Botch, to obtain the instructions of the court as to the construction of the will. Hearing before Morton, J., who reserved the case upon the bill, answers, and an agreed statement of facts, for the consideration of the full court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
This is a bill for instructions, brought by the administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Benjamin S. Botch, who died on August 19, 1882. The bill relates to the $100,000 which was placed in the care of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company for the benefit of Arthur Botch, the testator’s son, pursuant to the directions contained in the fourth article of the will. Arthur Botch died testate on August 15,1894, leaving no issue, and the executors of his will are made defendants. Of the other children of the testator who survived him, Edith, Aimée, Annie L., and Abbott…
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