Williams v. Thacher
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two BILLS IN EQUITY, both filed February 10, 1904, one by Moses Williams as trustee under the will of William Gr. Thacher, late of Boston, and the other by the same person as trustee under the will of Rebecca C. Billings, late of Boston, both for instructions.
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Two BILLS IN EQUITY, both filed February 10, 1904, one by Moses Williams as trustee under the will of William Gr. Thacher, late of Boston, and the other by the same person as trustee under the will of Rebecca C. Billings, late of Boston, both for instructions. The two cases came on to be heard before Lathrop, J., who reserved each of them upon the bill, answers and agreed facts for determination by the full court, such decrees to be entered therein as justice and equity might require. The will of William G. Thacher was dated September 14, 1883, and proved October 15, 1883. Omitting the…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
In the first of these cases the fundamental question is whether the trust shall be terminated, wholly or in part. The eighth clause of the will which created the trust is as follows: “ And when the youngest of my children who shall live *299shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years then I direct and request that my said trustees or whoever shall succeed them in said trust shall convey assign transfer set over and convey and pay to my children then living and to the issue then living of such as have deceased such issue of a deceased child of mine to take its deceased parents share by right of…
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