Fitts v. Free Baptist Society

Supreme Court of New Hampshire

Fitts v. Free Baptist Society

77 A. 484, 75 N.H. 608, 1910 N.H. LEXIS 73

Supreme Court of New Hampshire·Decided June 10, 1910·Published

Opinion

Bingham, J.

The executor is advised that Joseph C. Smith took the property bequeathed and devised under the residuary clause of Nancie’s will in trust, with power to sell and convey the same and to use the proceeds for himself if his comfort or convenience required, or for benevolent purposes, if he so desired, during his lifetime, with power to dispose by will of what remained, and that he exercised the power in the residuary clause of his will by designating the benevolent societies to which it should go.

Case discharged.

All concurred.

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Bingham, J.

The executor is advised that Joseph C. Smith took the property bequeathed and devised under the residuary clause of Nancie’s will in trust, with power to sell and convey the same and to use the proceeds for himself if his comfort or convenience required, or for benevolent purposes, if he so desired, during his lifetime, with power to dispose by will of what remained, and that he exercised the power in the residuary clause of his will by designating the benevolent societies to which it should go.

Case discharged.

All concurred.

Fitts v. Free Baptist Society, 77 A. 484, 75 N.H. 608, 1910 N.H. LEXIS 73 (N.H. 1910).

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