GRIMES v. PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND


22 Mass. App. Ct. 439 (1986)

494 N.E.2d 406

ROBERT A. GRIMES, executor, vs. PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

June 24, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Kehoe for the defendant.

Francis C. Lynch for the plaintiff.

Present: KASS, KAPLAN, & FINE, JJ.


KASS, J.

By any measure, the will of Edwin C. Tykeson was a simple one, and his estate was a simple one. The will, as a practical matter, left Tykeson's entire estate to Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown.1 That estate, which at Tykeson's death had a value of $346,000, consisted entirely of readily marketable securities (publicly held companies or funds and Federal notes and bonds...

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