Woodard v. Snow
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on June 12, 1918, by the trustees under an assignment by Benjamin P. Cheney for the benefit of certain of his creditors against" B en j amin P. Cheney, the trustees under the will of his father, who also was named Benjamin P. Cheney, and the trustee in bankruptcy of the son, to reach and apply to the payment of those creditors who. were beneficiaries under the assignment the interest, if any, of the defendant Cheney under…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on June 12, 1918, by the trustees under an assignment by Benjamin P. Cheney for the benefit of certain of his creditors against" B en j amin P. Cheney, the trustees under the will of his father, who also was named Benjamin P. Cheney, and the trustee in bankruptcy of the son, to reach and apply to the payment of those creditors who. were beneficiaries under the assignment the interest, if any, of the defendant Cheney under his father’s will. The suit was heard by Crosby, J., who filed v a memorandum of findings of fact and rulings of law,…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
This is a suit in equity brought by the plaintiffs, as trustees for certain creditors of the defendant Benjamin P. Cheney under a trust for such creditors created and established *273by a sealed agreement and an assignment dated respectively April 6 and April 10, 1914, against the trustees under the will of Benjamin P. Cheney, the father of the defendant of that name, to reach and apply the interest, if any, of the defendant Cheney under the will to the payment of the claims of the aforesaid creditors against Cheney as established by the instrument of trust.
In 1895 Benjamin P. Cheney died…
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