BUFFINTON v. MASON


327 Mass. 195 (1951)

97 N.E.2d 538

HAROLD S.R. BUFFINTON, executor, vs. OLIVE B. MASON & another, executors, & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

March 15, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R.C. Westgate, stated the case.

R.K. Hawes, (R.K. Hawes, Jr., with him,) for the respondent Weaver.

W.S. Downey, for the respondent Sheehan.

Present: QUA, C.J., LUMMUS, RONAN, SPALDING, & WILLIAMS, JJ.


WILLIAMS, J.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Probate Court entered upon a petition for instructions by the executor of the will of Ella K. Mason, late of Fall River, who died on February 5, 1947.

After the provisions for the payment of debts and funeral expenses and for several small bequests, the will, which is dated August 6, 1940, provides in paragraph 12 for the disposal of the residue of the estate as...

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