Legal Opinion

In Re Follett

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided December 18, 1901PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Bill in Equity seeking the construction of a will.

1Opinion of the Court

Stiness, C. J.(1) The will of Jabez Follett gave certain property to trustees for and during the life of his wife, to apply the net income thereof in part as follows : ‘ ‘ Pay unto my sister Martha Frances Anthony an annuity or clear yearly sum of one hundred dollars.” Upon the decease of his wife, to distribute the trust estate, in part: “To my sister, Martha Frances Anthony, fifty-five.hundred dollars to her use absolutely.”

Martha Frances Anthony has died, and the first question in this petition is whether the yearly payment ceased with her death or whether it shall continue to her executor…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Bates v. BarryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1878

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. White v. StrowbridgeOregon Supreme Court · 1930

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