Woodward v. Dain

This case in equity is before this court on an appeal from the final decree of the sitting Justice.

In the third paragraph of his will Charles F. Rideout, late of Bath, Maine, provided as follows:

“I do hereby expressly declare and direct that, in case my sister Sarah S. Woodward at any time falls into distress or is actually in need of financial assistance, my Executors shall furnish and provide for her out of my residuary estate such sum or sums as may be actually necessary for her support.”

By a decree of the Supreme Judicial Court of this State, dated August 18, 1909, it was decreed that…