Allen v. Boardman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal from a decree of the Probate Court for the county of Essex in a suit in equity brought by George L. Allen, administrator de bonis non, with the will annexed, of the estate of Charles H. Gould, late of Danvers, praying for instructions as to the distribution of the residue of the estate of that testator.
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Appeal from a decree of the Probate Court for the county of Essex in a suit in equity brought by George L. Allen, administrator de bonis non, with the will annexed, of the estate of Charles H. Gould, late of Danvers, praying for instructions as to the distribution of the residue of the estate of that testator. By his will the testator, after disposing by numerous bequests and devises of substantially all of his property, devised and bequeathed the residue of his property by the following clause of his will: “All the rest, residue and remainder of my property, real, personal, or mixed, to the…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
The testator, Charles H. Gould, after disposing in numerous bequests of a large part of his property, devised the residue in the following language: “All the rest, residue and remainder of my property, real, personal, or mixed, to the persons who at my decease are my heirs at law, such heirs at law to share the same equally.” The testator had in his lifetime two sisters, and at his decease left as his heirs at law an only surviving sister, Caroline E. Boardman, two nieces, Mary E. Long and Caroline E. Denny, daughters of his deceased sister, and Alanson L. Daniels, a grandnephew, son of a…
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- Cummings v. CummingsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
- Hall v. HallMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
- Bassett v. GrangerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
- Coates v. BurtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
- King v. SavageMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
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