Bemis v. Converse
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk on November 21,1921, and afterwards amended, by Frank B. Bemis, Moorfield Storey, Edward M, Benson and Parker Converse as executors of the will of Harry E. Converse, and the first three as trustees under the deed of trust described in the opinion, against the beneficiaries under the will and the deed, for instructions as to what part, if any, of a sum paid by the executors as a federal estate tax…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk on November 21,1921, and afterwards amended, by Frank B. Bemis, Moorfield Storey, Edward M, Benson and Parker Converse as executors of the will of Harry E. Converse, and the first three as trustees under the deed of trust described in the opinion, against the beneficiaries under the will and the deed, for instructions as to what part, if any, of a sum paid by the executors as a federal estate tax assessed upon both the property passing by the deed and by the will, should be paid to the executors by the trustees; and…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
This is a suit in equity brought by three of the plaintiffs as trustees under a deed of trust of Harry E. Converse, and by these three together with another as executors of the will of Harry E. Converse, against his widow and others interested in the deed of trust and in his estate.
The pertinent facts are that in 1910 Harry E. Converse conveyed to the plaintiff trustees certain stocks and bonds upon the trusts set forth in the deed of trust. In brief, the terms of the trust were to hold the property, pay the income to the settlor during his life, and upon his death to divide the income among…
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