Legal Opinion
Lewis v. National Shawmut Bank
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 23, 1939PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtQua, J.
The executors of the will of Benjamin Lewis brought in the Probate Court a petition in equity against the trustees named in an instrument purporting to be a deed of trust made by Lewis shortly before his death. On November 27, 1936, a decree was entered setting aside the trust deed on the ground that Lewis was mentally incompetent to make it and ordering the executors to pay very substantial sums as “counsel fees, costs and expenses as between solicitor and client” to the attorneys who had represented various parties.
The present petitioner is Lewis' widow. She was a party to the former…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Newton v. Consolidated Gas Co. of NYSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
- Ensign v. FaxonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Smith v. LivermoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- Sears v. Inhabitants of NahantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
- Old Colony Trust Co. v. Third Universalist Society of CambridgeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
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3Cited by39 opinions
- Northern Heel Corp. v. Compo Industries, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1988
- First National Bank of Boston v. BrinkMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Hayden v. HaydenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1950
- Dillon's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
- Mulhern v. RoachMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
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