MARTIN v. NEW ENGLAND DEACONESS HOSPITAL


328 Mass. 259 (1952)

103 N.E.2d 240

EARLE D. MARTIN & another, executors, vs. NEW ENGLAND DEACONESS HOSPITAL & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

January 8, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R.M. Robinson, stated the case.

R.I. Hunneman, for Earle D. Martin and another, trustees, and another.

C.P. Bartlett, (E.A. Owens with him,) for Selma J. Bailey.

R.H. Lovell, for Sarah Elizabeth Houghton and others.

J.R. Kewer & J.M. Hogan, for Grace J. Doherty, administratrix, submitted a brief.

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


LUMMUS, J.

The executors of the will of Elroy W. Houghton, late of Brookline, a childless widower, who died on November 8, 1949, petition for instructions with respect to United States estate taxes and Massachusetts legacy and succession taxes. From a decree giving such instructions, dated June 8, 1951, the New England Deaconess Hospital, and also Earle D. Martin and Old Colony Trust Company, trustees under the will of Bertha...

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