to compel the executor of said Eddy's will to pay over to the
plaintiffs the residue of her estate. The bill alleged the
following facts:

Francis Jackson, the father of said Eliza F. Eddy, died in 1861,
leaving a will, by the sixth article of which he gave $5,000 to
Wendell Phillips, Lucy Stone Blackwell and Susan B. Anthony, in
trust, "to be expended by them without any responsibility to any
one, at their discretion, in such sums, at such times, and in
such places as they may deem fit, to secure the passage of laws
granting women, whether married or unmarried, the right to vote,
to hold office, to hold, manage and devise property, and all
other civil rights enjoyed by men; and for the preparation and
circulation of books, the delivery of lectures, and such other
means as they may judge best." By the eighth article he gave
one-third of the residue to a trustee, to pay the income to his
daughter, Eliza F. Eddy, during her life, and upon her death
one-half of the income to the trustees and on the trusts named in
the sixth article, and the other half to Mrs. Eddy's daughter,
Mrs. Lizzie F. Bacon, during her life, and, on the death of Mrs.
Bacon, the principal to the trustees and on the trusts named in
the sixth article.

It was held by this court that these bequests were not a charity
(see _Jackson vs. Phillips, 14 Allen, 539_).

In consequence of this decision, certain agreements, releases,
and a partition were made, by which one-third of the residue of
Mr. Jackson's estate became the property of Mrs. Eddy, subject to
being held in trust for herself for life, and thereafter, as to
one-half, for her daughter, Mrs. Bacon, during her life. Mrs.
Eddy died December 29, 1881, leaving a will by which she gave
absolute legacies to the amount of $24,500 to various persons
therein named. This disposed of all her estate except what came
to her from her father's estate. Her will then provided as
follows:

"What is left, after paying the above legacies, I direct shall be
divided into two equal portions; one of said portions I leave to
Miss Susan B. Anthony of Rochester, in the State of New York, as
her absolute property, and the other portion I leave to Lucy
Stone, wife of H. B. Blackwell, as her own absolute and separate
property, free from