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DANA v. GRING

374 Mass. 109 (1977)

371 N.E.2d 755

LAWRENCE DANA & others, executors, vs. FRANK McQUESTEN GRING & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

December 28, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard D. Leggat (Lawrence I. Silverstein with him) for the plaintiffs.

Myron C. Baum, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Gilbert E. Andrews, William A. Friedlander, Jonathan S. Cohen, & Robert A. Bernstein, for the United States, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, KAPLAN, WILKINS, & LIACOS, JJ.

HENNESSEY, C.J.

The plaintiffs, as executors of the will of Helen Barnet Gring (Gring), commenced this action in the Probate Court for Middlesex County by a complaint for instructions, seeking the proper interpretation of a testamentary provision contained in the will of Frank B. McQuesten, Gring's father. The executors sought instructions in order that they could (1) determine properly the value of Gring's gross estate for Federal estate tax purposes, and (2) determine...

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