Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1875

Woods v. Richardson

Woods v. Richardson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided March 2, 1875 · Gray
117 Mass. 276; 1875 Mass. LEXIS 213

Counsel

0. A. Welch, for the demandants., G. B. Goodrich, (B. B. Perry with him,) for the tenant.

Woods v. Richardson

Opinion of the Court

Gray, C. J.

By the marriage settlement, no more than an estate for the life of the wife was conveyed to the trustee; the reversion in fee remained in her, and passed by her deed in which her husband joined. No estate, therefore, descended from her to her heirs, and they took none under the settlement.

Judgment for the tenant.

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