Bunker v. Murray
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two appeals from decrees of the Probate Court for the County of Nantucket, the first upon a petition of the executor under the will of John Murray for leave to sell real estate to pay debts, charges and legacies under that will, opposed by Harriet E. Murray, widow of the testator, on the ground that she had waived the provisions of the will and was entitled to all the real estate of the testator in fee, it being less than $5,000 in value, the second upon a petition of…
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Two appeals from decrees of the Probate Court for the County of Nantucket, the first upon a petition of the executor under the will of John Murray for leave to sell real estate to pay debts, charges and legacies under that will, opposed by Harriet E. Murray, widow of the testator, on the ground that she had waived the provisions of the will and was entitled to all the real estate of the testator in fee, it being less than $5,000 in value, the second upon a petition of Harriet E. Murray for the setting off to her in fee of all the real estate of the testator under her waiver of the provisions…
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The only question argued in these cases relates to the construction to be given to the Pub. Sts. c. 127, § 18. The first part of the section provides that “ a widow may, at any time within six months after the probate of the will of her *336deceased husband, file in the registry of probate a writing signed by her, waiving any provisions the husband may have made for her in his will, or claiming such portion of his estate as she would have been entitled to if he had died intestate,” etc. The last sentence of the section reads thus: “ When, after probate of such will, legal proceedings are…
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