Davis v. Chase
Davis v. Chase
Opinion of the Court
This is not like a case in the Roman law of a direction to bury, with an allowance of a certain sum for the purpose, where less was used. D. 31, 88, § 1. The testatrix gives “ all ” the residue of her estate “ for the use and to the purpose following, viz.: the same [i. e. all the residue] to be converted into money . . . and to be expended in fitting up the burial lot owned by me in the Lowell Cemetery, and in erecting a suitable and proper monument thereon.” The express requirement is that all the residue be spent for the. purpose or rather the purposes mentioned, and this requirement is not cut down
Decree affirmed.
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