BOAL v. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

No. 228.

19 F.2d 454 (1927)

BOAL et al. v. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART OF CITY OF NEW YORK et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

May 9, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorman & Dana, of New York City (William R. Tillinghast, of Providence, R. I., William R. Dorman, of New York City, and James C. Collins, of Providence, R. I., of counsel), for appellant Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co.

De Forest Brothers, of New York City (Robert Thorne, of New York City, of counsel), for appellant Metropolitan Museum of Art.

William E. Carnochan, of New York City (Theodore C. Richards, of New York City, Lyman K. Clark, of Boston, Mass., and William E. Carnochan and Tompkins McIlvaine, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellees.

Before MANTON and MACK, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, District Judge.


MANTON, Circuit Judge.

Theodore M. Davis died at Newport, R. I., leaving a will, dated August 14, 1911, and a codicil, dated October 4, 1911, which were probated in the probate court of Rhode Island on April 5, 1915. Later, on May 24, 1926, by a decree of the probate court of Rhode Island, a trust deed executed upon the same day as his will was admitted to probate as a component part of the will. Merrill v. Boal, 47 R.I. 274, 132 A. 721, 45 A. L. R. 830. By a later...

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