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King v. Stowell

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided February 29, 1912PublishedCited by 18 opinions

Bill m equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on March 20, 1911, against Eugene A. Stowell, trustee under the will of Charles A. Ranlett, late of Billerica, and Charles R. Darling, conservator of the property of E. Minnie Ranlett.

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Bill m equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on March 20, 1911, against Eugene A. Stowell, trustee under the will of Charles A. Ranlett, late of Billerica, and Charles R. Darling, conservator of the property of E. Minnie Ranlett. The facts alleged in the bill were in substance as follows: Charles A. Ranlett died in 1878 leaving a will containing the following paragraph: “After the death of my wife should our daughter E. Minnie Ranlett survive her, my said trustees are hereby directed and required to set aside and invest and themselves to hold in trust so much of my property either real…

1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.

The testator devised his property to three trustees in trust to pay the income for life to his widow, and upon her death, if his daughter E. Minnie Ranlett survived, “my said trustees are hereby directed and required to set aside and invest and themselves to hold in trust so much of my property either real or personal or both as may be sufficient to produce an annual income of not less than six hundred dollars which income shall be from time to time applied to the support and maintenance of my said daughter E. Minnie Ranlett during her life. She to be provided with such suitable home as my…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Hussey v. ArnoldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
  2. Hayes v. HallMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
  3. Foote v. CottingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
  4. Tuttle v. First National BankMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
  5. Ashley v. WinkleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911

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3Cited by18 opinions

  1. Frost v. ThompsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
  2. Hallett v. MooreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1933
  3. Turner v. MorsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
  4. Rand v. FarquharMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
  5. Rosenthal v. SchwartzMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913

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