Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Bacon
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal from a decree of the Probate Court for the county of Norfolk, allowing the will of Elisabeth Miller French, late of Brookline, who died on January 21, 1916, in which will the petitioner, the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, a corporation, was named as executor. The issues sent for trial to the Superior Court are described in the opinion.
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Appeal from a decree of the Probate Court for the county of Norfolk, allowing the will of Elisabeth Miller French, late of Brookline, who died on January 21, 1916, in which will the petitioner, the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, a corporation, was named as executor. The issues sent for trial to the Superior Court are described in the opinion. Those issues were tried before McLaughlin, J. The evidence relating to the competency of the attesting witnesses is described in the opinion. Mrs. Bowen, a cousin of the testatrix, testified that William Reed Holbrook, mentioned in the opinion,…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
This is a probate appeal from the allowance of the will of Elisabeth Miller French, who died on January 21, 1916. Issues for the jury, as framed by a single justice of this court, were in regard to the execution of the will, the soundness of mind and memory of the testatrix, and the undue influence of certain persons named. In answer to the issues the jury found that the instrument propounded for probate was executed according to law, that the testatrix was of sound and disposing mind and memory, and that the instrument was not procured by or with the undue influence of the persons named or…
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