Fowler v. True
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report on agreed statement of facts. These are actions of assumpsit severally brought against the defendant as a devisee of John True, late of Poland, Maine, under the provision's of E. S., c. 87, § 16, as amended by stat. 1872, c. 85. The date of the writs in the first two actions is March 28, 1883, and in the third action, March 30, 1883. The plea was the general issue in each case. The opinion states the facts.
1Opinion of the CourtSymonds, J.
These are actions of assumpsit against the defendant as a devisee of John True, who was executor of the will of Samuel True, of Providence, E. I. This will was *44admitted to probate in Rhode Island in April, 1866, and in Maine, where Samuel True owned real estate, in January, 1867 ; the estate was duly administered under the laws of Rhode Island, and in the settlement of his account as executor on August 9, 1869, John True charged himself with a fund in his hands as trustee under the following clause therein : "I hereby bequeath and devise to the children of my deceased sister, Delaney Dennin,…
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- Bacon v. PomeroyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
- Inhabitants of Stockbridge v. Inhabitants of West StockbridgeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1815
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- Newbery v. WilkinsonU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Washington · 1911
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