Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court November 15, 1871 (Spooner v. Lovejoy)

Ames, J.

The general terms of this bequest import an absolute gift of all the residue of the property, real, personal and mixed, principal and income, to the widow, to her own use, and to be disposed of at her decease according to the terms of her last will. These words were sufficient, if they stood alone, to vest the whole of the residue in her absolutely. Brown v. Wood, 17 Mass. 68. Godfrey v.