SPRINGFIELD SAFE DEPOSIT & TRUST CO. v. STOOP


326 Mass. 363 (1950)

96 N.E.2d 161

SPRINGFIELD SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY, trustee, vs. EVA L. STOOP & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampshire.

November 1, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.H. Finn & W.H. Brownell, for the respondent Cooley Dickinson Hospital, and A.D. Morse, for the respondents Eva L. Stoop and others.

F.E. Kelly, Attorney General, G.J. Barry & L.E. Ryan, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Attorney General.

Present: QUA, C.J., LUMMUS, SPALDING, WILLIAMS, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


LUMMUS, J.

This is a petition for instructions by the trustee under the will of Chauncey H. Pierce, late of Northampton, who died on January 31, 1933. By his will the testator gave the residue of his estate to the petitioner in trust to pay annuities of $1,200 to Calla I. Harvey (now deceased), $1,200 to Eva L. Stoop, $600 to Ellen V. Friele, and $800 to Anna W. Orne. At the termination of all the annuities the remaining residue was given to the Cooley Dickinson Hospital...

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