Bowen v. Hoxie
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, by the executors of the will of Timothy W. Hoxie, to obtain the instructions of the court as to the construction of the will. Hearing before Holmes, J., who reported the case for the determination of the full court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtC. Allen, J.
The testator died on December 18, 1882, leaving a widow and six children by her, and three children of a former marriage. In March, 1883, another child, Pauline, was born. The testator by his will, dated February 28, 1880, besides other bequests to his wife and his nine children then living, left the sum of $50,000 in trust, to pay the income to his wife during her life, and, after her decease, “ to pay over the interest and income thereof annually in equal shares to my surviving children by my said wife Abby Elizabeth,” with an ultimate distribution of the principal among them. There was no…
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