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MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS v. BELAND

432 Mass. 540 (2000)

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS v. ELIZABETH BELAND, & others, trustees, & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 11, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Renehan (Debra Squires-Lee with him) for Elizabeth Beland.

Johanna Soris, Assistant Attorney General (Eric Carriker, Assistant Attorney General, with her) for Attorney General.

Andrew C. Griesinger (Mona M. Patel with him) for the plaintiff.

Debra Rahmin Silberstein for Arts for Lawrence, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, & SOSMAN, JJ.

GREANEY, J.

This is an action brought under G. L. c. 231A by the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), seeking a declaration that the will of the late Reverend William E. Wolcott (Wolcott) does not allow the defendants to sell any of the seventeen paintings that were bequeathed to a charitable trust. The record establishes the following relevant undisputed facts. Wolcott died in 1911. In his will, executed on June 20, 1907, Wolcott...

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