Morse v. Beddoe

Opinion

AULT, J.

Eliot Beddoe was the income beneficiary of a testamentary trust under a will executed by his mother, Madeleine L. Moulton, on July 24, 1923. After Eliot’s death in 1973, the trustee petitioned the probate court for instructions concerning the distribution of the trust corpus. The court ordered the trust property distributed to Pamela Beddoe as the surviving “lawful issue” of Eliot, who had adopted her as an adult in 1969.

The alternate remaindermen under the will, entitled to take the property in the event Eliot died leaving no widow and no surviving “lawful issue,” are Beatrice…