Huntress v. Place

This is an appeal from a decree of the Probate Court, upon a petition by the executors of, and trustees under, the will of Isaac Place, asking for a construction of the will. Pub. Sts. c. 127, § 34. The will is dated August 11, 1872, and the testator died on August 13, 1872. When the will was executed, and when the testator died, there were living no issue, and no father or mother of the testator; but three brothers, David, Charles, and James, and one sister, Susan Whitehouse, and children and grandchildren, heirs at law of a deceased sister, Eliza Ricker, and children of another deceased…