OLD COLONY TRUST CO. v. BARKER


332 Mass. 533 (1955)

126 N.E.2d 188

OLD COLONY TRUST COMPANY, trustee, vs. B. DEVEREAUX BARKER, administrator, & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

April 22, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Carroll, stated the case.

H. Peter Somers, (S. Roy Remar with him,) for William H. Towle and others.

John L. Hurley, for Isabelle D. Watt, executrix.

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


WILLIAMS, J.

This is a petition by the trustee under the will of Robert H. Monks to be instructed as to whom certain legacies and shares in the principal of a trust should be paid. The testator died on February 16, 1923, leaving a will which had been executed on July 2, 1904. Therein, after bequests to his wife, Anne B. Monks, he left the residue of his estate in trust to pay the income to her during her life and upon her death to pay over the principal to certain...

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