Hitchcock v. Shaw

This is an an appeal from a decree of a single justice of this court, affirming a decree of a judge of the Probate Court admitting to probate an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Ursula J. Shaw. This instrument, after mentioning several legacies, directs that the residue of the estate shall be divided into two equal parts, and provides that one part shall constitute the Shaw fund, and proceeds as follows: “ which fund I give and bequeath to the town of Brimfield, in Hampden County, in the State of Massachusetts, the principal thereof to be never diminished, but the…