BOSTON SAFE DEPOSIT & TRUST CO. v. BLAISDELL


333 Mass. 51 (1955)

127 N.E.2d 796

BOSTON SAFE DEPOSIT & TRUST COMPANY vs. NATHANIEL BLAISDELL & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 6, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harris A. Reynolds, (Thomas H. Dowd, Jr., with him,) for the proponent.

John Kimball, Jr., for the contestants.

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


WILLIAMS, J.

This is an appeal by the proponent for probate of the will of Harriet Blaisdell from an order of the Probate Court allowing a motion for the framing of the following issue for a jury, "Was the said Harriet Blaisdell at the time of the execution of the said alleged will of sound mind?" The motion was heard on statements by counsel of evidence which they expected to produce.

The decedent died on May 29, 1954, leaving an instrument purporting to...

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