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IN THE MATTER OF THE TRUSTS UNDER THE WILL OF CRABTREE

440 Mass. 177 (2003)

IN THE MATTER OF THE TRUSTS UNDER THE WILL OF LOTTA M. CRABTREE (and a consolidated case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 16, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. DeGiacomo (Judith K. Wyman with him) for the guardian.

J. Owen Todd for the trustees.

Present: Marshall, C.J., Greaney, Spina, Cowin, Sosman, & Cordy, JJ.

MARSHALL, C.J.

In these consolidated appeals, which we transferred to this court on our own motion, we consider, among other issues, the circumstances in which a judge in the Probate and Family Court may invoke S.J.C. Rule 1:07, as amended, 431 Mass. 1301 (2000), concerning fee-generating appointments by the court, when considering a petition to appoint a trustee of a charitable trust who is "prayed for by name" in the petition.1 In this...

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