Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1872

Deane v. Home for Aged Colored Women

Deane v. Home for Aged Colored Women
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided November 15, 1872 · Chapman
111 Mass. 132

Counsel

JR. D. Smith, for the plaintiffs., C. T. Russell, for the American Peace Society.

Deane v. Home for Aged Colored Women

Opinion of the Court

Chapman, C. J.

We must regard it as a general rule established by the authorities cited by the defendants’ counsel that whenever a testator has expressed himself so ambiguously as to make it necessary for his executors to come to this court, the costs should be paid out of the general assets. This case comes within the general rule. Decree accordingly.

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