Blake v. Pegram
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeals from decrees of the probate court for Suffolk, which purported to have been made pro formd, accepting and confirming accounts rendered by Blake and John A. Loring as trustees under the will of Fitzhenry Homer, and by Blake as guardian, under said will, of Isabel, the testator’s daughter, since become, by marriage, Mrs. Pegram.
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Appeals from decrees of the probate court for Suffolk, which purported to have been made pro formd, accepting and confirming accounts rendered by Blake and John A. Loring as trustees under the will of Fitzhenry Homer, and by Blake as guardian, under said will, of Isabel, the testator’s daughter, since become, by marriage, Mrs. Pegram. Motions filed by the' appellees, to dismiss the appeals so far as they related to previous accounts settled in the probate court, were denied, reserving to the appellees the right to avail themselves of their objections to such denial at any future stage of the…
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
Under the provision of Gen. Sts. c. 117, § 14 giving to appeals from the probate court the same rights, as to hearing and determination, as belong to cases in equity, all queS. tians of law or fact may be brought before the full court foi *597argument and final decision. Such hearings, however, can be of but very little practical advantage, unless the previous investigations for which the law provides are so conducted as to present in the most precise and definite form practicable all questions which áre intended for discussion here. It is not in accordance with the purpose manifested in the…
2Cited by28 opinions
- King v. GraceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- Gale v. NickersonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
- Jose v. LymanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
- Blake v. PegramMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872
- Shear v. GabovitchMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1997
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