IN RE ESTATE OF THOMPSON


414 A.2d 881 (1980)

In re ESTATE of Frederick M. THOMPSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided May 16, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pierce, Atwood, Scribner, Allen, Smith & Lancaster by Everett P. Ingalls, Portland, (orally), for Sweetser Children's Home.

Jerome S. Matus (orally), Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, for Attorney General.

Verrill & Dana, Michael T. Healy, Portland (orally), for Abilities & Goodwill, Inc.

Roberts, Shirley & Humphrey, James J. Shirley, Springvale (orally), for intervenor, Waban Projects.

Marden, Dubord, Bernier & Chandler, Alton C. Stevens, Waterville (orally), for Pine Tree Society.

S. James Levis, Jr., Portland, for D. T. Drummond, Jr., Adm'r.

Preti, Flaherty & Beliveau, Joel C. Martin (orally), Arthur A. Peabody, Portland, for Jane Frisbee Holmes.

Before WERNICK, GODFREY, and NICHOLS, JJ., and DUFRESNE, A. R. J.


DUFRESNE, Active Retired Justice.

The four intervenors as potential cy pres beneficiaries of the charitable trust set up in the will of Frederick M. Thompson (testator) and the Attorney General of the State of Maine appeal to the Law Court from a judgment of the Superior Court, Cumberland County, sitting as the Supreme Court of Probate in Equity, to the effect that the Canal National Bank, the plaintiff successor-trustee, shall hold the reference trust as a resulting...

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