SALTONSTALL v. SALTONSTALL

No. 144.

276 U.S. 260 (1928)

SALTONSTALL ET AL. v. SALTONSTALL ET AL., TRUSTEES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 20, 1928.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Thomas Hunt for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Edwin H. Abbott, Jr., with whom Mr. Arthur K. Reading, Attorney General of Massachusetts, was on the brief, for the Treasurer and Receiver General.


MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

Plaintiffs in error are beneficiaries of a trust created by deed of Peter C. Brooks. After the death of the settlor the trustees, who, with certain Massachusetts tax officials, are defendants in error, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts a petition for instructions which joined the beneficiaries of the trust and the officials as respondents, and asked...

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