Bayley v. Sloper

This is a petition for instructions, filed by the executor of the will of Frances H. Stearns.

The testatrix died April 29, 1911. Cash legacies under the will amounted to $55,000. The residue of her estate was devised and bequeathed to Marilla Jones and Cyril Jones in equal shares. The estate consisted of personal property valued at $3,885.71, and an equity in two parcels of real estate inventoried at $2,900; this real estate was subject to three mortgages, aggregating $45,000, all of which were overdue at the date of her death. Her unsecured indebtedness at the time of her decease was about…