Springfield Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Dunn
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Probate Court for the county of Hampden on January 14, 1922, by the trustees under the will of Michael Dunn, late of Springfield, for instructions, "to whom and in what proportions the income of said trust fund [[described in the opinion] should be paid and in particular to whom that proportionate part of said income formerly paid to said Rachel Griffin Sullivan, prior to her death, shall be paid.”
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Bill in equity, filed in the Probate Court for the county of Hampden on January 14, 1922, by the trustees under the will of Michael Dunn, late of Springfield, for instructions, "to whom and in what proportions the income of said trust fund [[described in the opinion] should be paid and in particular to whom that proportionate part of said income formerly paid to said Rachel Griffin Sullivan, prior to her death, shall be paid.” In the Probate Court, the suit was heard by Long, J. Material facts are described in the opinion. By order of the judge, a final decree was entered adjudging that the…
1Opinion of the CourtJenney, J.
The will of Michael Dunn of Springfield was admitted to probate on May 7, 1913. After specific devises, all the rest, residue, and remainder of his property was given in trust to the Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Company and Kieran L. Dunn.
The trustees were directed to make payments not here in controversy from the income, and to “apply for the comfortable support ” of the widow during her natural life a sum not exceeding $3,000 annually.
The testator provided that the remaining income should be paid “in equal shares, semiannually to my children Kieran L. Dunn, Katherine Kilroy, Mary H.…
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