Bodfish v. Bodfish
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
In equity. On appeal by defendants. Sustained. Bill in equity brought to obtain a judicial construction of the last will and testament of Nymphas Bodfish late of Elliottsville. An answer was duly filed by the defendants. A hearing was then had on bill, answer and evidence before the Justice of the first instance who sustained the plaintiffs’ contentions and made and entered a decree to that effect.
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In equity. On appeal by defendants. Sustained. Bill in equity brought to obtain a judicial construction of the last will and testament of Nymphas Bodfish late of Elliottsville. An answer was duly filed by the defendants. A hearing was then had on bill, answer and evidence before the Justice of the first instance who sustained the plaintiffs’ contentions and made and entered a decree to that effect. The defendants then appealed to the Law Court as provided by Revised Statutes, chapter 79, section 22. The chse is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
This is a bill in equity brought to obtain a judicial construction of the following will of Nymphas Bodfish of Elliottsville in the county of Piscataquis, dated April 19, 1904.
*168First. I give, bequeath and devise unto my wife Lydia A. Bodfish, of said Elliottsville, all the property, real, personal and mixed, which I shall own or be possessed of at the time of my decease, for and during the term of her natural life ;
Second. After the decease of said Lydia A. Bodfish, I give, bequeath and devise unto my son John I. Bodfish, Lot No. One in the Third Range of lots in the Vaughan tract in said…
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