Loring v. Stewart

These are appeals from part of a decree of the Probate Court for the county of Norfolk on a petition for instructions as to the interpretation of a short term trust and a will, both executed by Louis B. Thacher, Jr. (the settlor).

On September 18, 1957, the settlor executed an irrevocable inter vivas trust which recited that its purpose was to satisfy the legal obligation of the settlor to his three living children by his first marriage and that its creation was conditioned upon the cancellation of an earlier separation agreement. The trust provided, in relevant part, as follows: “Third: The…