Brimmer v. Sohier
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a bill in equity, the nature of which sufficiently appears from the following statement of facts, upon which the cause was submitted.
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This was a bill in equity, the nature of which sufficiently appears from the following statement of facts, upon which the cause was submitted. On the 14th day of March, 1835, George W. Brimmer, Martin Brimmer, Mary Ann Brimmer, and the plaintiff, were the owners in fee of four undivided fifth parts of the wharf and flats in Boston, known as Brimmer’s T ; the children of Susan Brimmer Inches owned the reversion of the other undivided fifth part, of which their father was and is tenant by the curtesy. George W. Brimmer died in Italy, September 12th, 1838, having made his will, since duly proved…
1Opinion of the CourtForbes, J.
This case comes before the court upon an agreed statement of facts. Two questions only have been argued, and submitted for our decision. The first question is, whether Mary Ann Brimmer took any estate under the will of George W. Brimmer. This will is exceedingly brief, and was, apparently, written by the testator, without the aid of professional advice. The first clause contains a bequest of all the estate of the testator in Brewer, in the state of Maine, to the surviving children of his deceased sister, Susan Inches. Then follows a bequest to George B. Sohier. The next and last clause of the…
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