FIDUCIARY TRUST CO. v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK


344 Mass. 1 (1962)

181 N.E.2d 6

FIDUCIARY TRUST COMPANY, trustee, vs. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, trustee, & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 16, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren G. Reed, guardian ad litem, pro se, (Jackson W. Wright, Jr., with him).

George H. Kidder, (Arnold W. Hunnewell, Jr., with him,) for the respondent The First National Bank of Colorado Springs, Colorado, trustee, and another.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WILLIAMS, CUTTER, & KIRK, JJ.


KIRK, J.

The petitioner is successor trustee of property held by it under an inter vivos trust created on May 6, 1930, by Alice H. Ware, late of this Commonwealth. The petitioner seeks the instructions of the court as to whether a testamentary power of appointment given in the Alice H. Ware Trust (the Trust) to Francis C. Ware (Francis) late of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was duly exercised by the residuary clause in the will of said Francis.

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