FIDUCIARY TRUST CO. v. SILSBEE


187 A.2d 396 (1963)

FIDUCIARY TRUST CO., Trustee u/w/o Sarah G. Silsbee v. Gerald Saltonstall SILSBEE et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

January 18, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pierce, Atwood, Scribner, Allen & McKusick, by Sigrid E. Thompkins and Fred C. Scribner, Jr., Portland, for plaintiff.

Johnson, Clapp, Ives & King, Boston, Mass., Drummond & Drummond, by Paul A. Wescott, Verrill, Dana, Walker, Philbrick & Whitehouse, by John A. Mitchell, Linnell, Perkins, Thompson, Hinckley & Thaxter, by Franklin G. Hinckley, Portland, for defendant.

Before WILLIAMSON, C. J., and WEBBER, TAPLEY, SULLIVAN, DUBORD and SIDDALL, JJ. (DUBORD, J., resigned before rendition of decision).


SULLIVAN, Justice.

Action for the construction of a testamentary trust and for the authoritative determination of the mode of executing that trust. R.S.1954, c. 107, § 4, subd. X, as amended. The case comes to this Court upon report. Rules 72, M.R.C.P., 155 Me. 573.

Sarah G. Silsbee, the testatrix and a resident of Maine, died on June 8, 1933. She was survived by a son, George S. Silsbee, by a daughter, Elizabeth...

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