Sargent v. Sargent

The executor of the will of Lucius M. Sargent prays the direction of this court, sitting in equity, as to the constrnction and effect of the following clause in the will:

“ I will and direct that twenty bonds of the United States, of one thousand dollars each, now in my possession, be sold, as soon as may be after my decease, and the avails paid over to the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, in trust to pay the interest thereof annually to Letitia S. Sargent, wife of Lucius M. Sargent, Junior, during her natural life, and the principal at her death to his children, share and share…