FRANKLIN FOUNDATION v. ATTORNEY GENERAL


416 Mass. 483 (1993)

623 N.E.2d 1109

THE FRANKLIN FOUNDATION vs. ATTORNEY GENERAL & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 6, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Rounds, Jr., for the plaintiff.

David Lee Turner for Franklin Institute of Boston.

Richard C. Allen, Assistant Attorney General (Leonard Kaplan, Special Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the Attorney General.

Mark Sweeney, Assistant Corporation Counsel, & Danna M. Crowley, for the city of Boston, were present but did not argue.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., NOLAN, LYNCH, & GREANEY, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

A single justice has reserved and reported this case based on the pleadings and a statement of agreed facts and exhibits. The underlying action brought by the plaintiff, The Franklin Foundation (Foundation), is in the nature of interpleader and seeks a declaratory judgment and instructions concerning the appropriate distribution of the corpus of the so-called 200 Year Franklin Accumulation Trust, a trust established...

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