Healey v. Toppan
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
This is an appeal from the Court of Probate. Charles N. Healey, the plaintiff, and Mrs. Ann E. S. Toppan, the defendant, were appointed joint executors of the last will and testament of Christopher S. Toppan, late of Portsmouth, deceased, and had accepted the trust and given the required bonds.
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This is an appeal from the Court of Probate. Charles N. Healey, the plaintiff, and Mrs. Ann E. S. Toppan, the defendant, were appointed joint executors of the last will and testament of Christopher S. Toppan, late of Portsmouth, deceased, and had accepted the trust and given the required bonds. The estate had been appraised as follows : Hampton farm, $5,000 00 Real estate in Portsmouth, 966 00 Total real estate, --$5,966 00 Cash onhand, $3,532 66 Stock in trade (shipping,) 29,750 00 Stock in corporations, 51,288 00 Notes, &c., 1,961 62 Live stock and provisions, • 578 00 Farming utensils, 75…
1Opinion of the CourtSargent, J.
The testator first gives and bequeaths to his wife, " all my property in possession and all and every contingent interest arising or growing out of any property now in my possession or in expectancy,” subject to the following conditions : First, that his wife should pay the sum of six hundred dollars per year to the testator’s two sisters, during their lives and the life of the survivor; and, second, that, after the death of his wife, one-half of all his property should be held in " trusteeship," (the trustees to be named in the will,) to be disposed of in the following manner:—His faim in…
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