de Cordova v. Weeks
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk on December 26,1922, seeking to have ascertained the amount due to those defendants who are called “ lenders ” in the opinion, and the amount which those defendants who were trustees under the will of the plaintiff’s father should pay to the plaintiff after the terms of the assignment of the plaintiff’s interest therein to the lenders was satisfied.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk on December 26,1922, seeking to have ascertained the amount due to those defendants who are called “ lenders ” in the opinion, and the amount which those defendants who were trustees under the will of the plaintiff’s father should pay to the plaintiff after the terms of the assignment of the plaintiff’s interest therein to the lenders was satisfied. Also a Cross bill in equity, by the lenders against the plaintiff in the main bill and the trustees under his father’s will, seeking to enforce the plaintiff’s rights…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The beneficiaries for life under the will of Thomas Dana having died and his grandson, the plaintiff Julian Dana de Cordova, having ¡survived and attained the age of twenty-one years, the defendants Weeks and Wellington, the trustees, were required by its provisions to “ pay over and distribute ” to him the “ remainder of the principal estate ” which amounts “ to upwards of $500,000.” *102But de Cordova having assigned his interest in the fund as collateral security for certain claims due or which might become due from him to the defendants Bissell, Blunt and Butler, hereafter designated as the…
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