Sears v. Putnam

The plaintiff, who is administrator, with the will annexed, of Richard Orease, brings this bill in equity to obtain the direction and instruction of the court as to the construction and effect of the will. The ninth article of the will is as follows :

*6“ All the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, of every name or nature, I give in equal parts to and amongst my nephews and nieces, (the children of my sisters, Eliza F. Sears and Sarah M. Laughton, both deceased,) the portion coming to my nieces to be held in trust for them, during the term of twenty-five years from the day of my death, by…