Richardson v. Lane
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on February 17 and amended on December 30, 1914, against the executor of the will of Mary A. Christie, late of Cambridge, seeking to have the defendant as such executor ordered to pay off and discharge a mortgage on which $600 still was due to the Cambridgeport Savings Bank upon the house and lot numbered 100 on Western Avenue in Cambridge, which belonged to the defendant’s testatrix at the time of her death and was devised by her…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on February 17 and amended on December 30, 1914, against the executor of the will of Mary A. Christie, late of Cambridge, seeking to have the defendant as such executor ordered to pay off and discharge a mortgage on which $600 still was due to the Cambridgeport Savings Bank upon the house and lot numbered 100 on Western Avenue in Cambridge, which belonged to the defendant’s testatrix at the time of her death and was devised by her to the plaintiffs in pursuance of an agreement in writing dated October 29, 1912, to convey the said house and lot to…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
The defendant’s testatrix, Mary A. Christie, and the plaintiffs entered into a written agreement, by the terms of which the plaintiffs (who are husband and wife) were to provide a suitable maintenance and support for the testatrix in her home at number 100 Western Avenue in Cambridge, during her life; and in consideration of such maintenance and support so furnished, the testatrix was to pay the plaintiffs the sum of $300, and also was to make a will devising the premises numbered 100 Western Avenue, Cambridge, to them “in fee simple.” When this agreement was entered into, Mrs. Christie was a…
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