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MORRIS v. SMITH

332 Mass. 34 (1954)

123 N.E.2d 212

IDA M. MORRIS, executrix, vs. MARJORIE CROSBY SMITH & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampshire.

December 13, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin P. Dunphy, stated the case.

William H. Brownell, for the respondent Ida M. Morris, individually.

Catharine B. Sage, for the respondent Northampton Historical Society.

Present: QUA, C.J., LUMMUS, WILKINS, WILLIAMS, & COUNIHAN, JJ.

COUNIHAN, J.

This is a petition by the executrix of the will of Dorothy M. Morris for instructions with respect to the meaning of said will.1 The judge entered a decree that Ida M. Morris took only a life estate. There was no error.

The evidence is not reported but the judge filed what in effect is a report of material facts. It appears that Ida M. Morris was the mother of the testatrix and that she was about ninety-one years old...

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