National Shawmut Bank v. Morey

This petition in equity is brought under § 6B inserted in G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 215, by St. 1935, c. 247, § 1, by the trustees under residuary clauses of the will of Edwin Morey, of Boston, who died September 21, 1907, for a declaratory judgment interpreting that part of the will which provides that at the decease of the last survivor of a number of life beneficiaries the trustees shall pay over “the then remaining sum of the said trust” in part to a certain charity and the balance to the testator’s “heirs at law.”

The question which the petitioners in their petition and most, but not all, of…