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77 N.H. 596

92 A 333

McLane v. Crosby

Supreme Court of New Hampshire

Decided November 4, 1914

Supreme Court of New Hampshire · decided 1914-11-04

Bill in Equity, by the trustee under the will of Alma Barker, for advice as to the distribution of the trust fund. Transferred without a ruling from the January term, 1914, of the superior court by Pike, C. J. The first and second clauses of the will create a trust fund for the benefit of Isaac N. Johnson, son of the testatrix, and of his children if any should be born to him.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently July 1952

2 state decisions

Relies on Dana v. Sanborn

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Decided 1914-11-04

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*597 Young, J.

¶1 The beneficiary having died, the trust fund is to be distributed in accordance with the provisions of the third clause of the will. In that clause the testatrix says she gives this fund “in equal portions” to her five brothers, naming them, “or their lawful heirs. ” If this language is given its ordinary meaning ( and there is nothing to show that that was not the testatrix’s intention), the trust fund is to be divided into five “equal portions,” and one of these portions distributed to the “lawful heirs” of each of her five brothers. Dana v. Sanborn, 70 N. H. 152.

¶2 Case discharged.

All concurred.
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