Hooper v. Hooper
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two bills nr equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court, the first in the county of Suffolk on April 23, 1908, and the second in the county of Bristol, by consent, on April 24, 1908, as of April 6, 1908, the first by Robert C. Hooper and Francis C. Welch, as the trustees of an estate created under a deed of trust dated June 1, 1883, by Sarah L. Ames, late of Easton, for the use and benefit of her granddaughter Helen Ames Hooper for life and thereafter for other purposes,…
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Two bills nr equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court, the first in the county of Suffolk on April 23, 1908, and the second in the county of Bristol, by consent, on April 24, 1908, as of April 6, 1908, the first by Robert C. Hooper and Francis C. Welch, as the trustees of an estate created under a deed of trust dated June 1, 1883, by Sarah L. Ames, late of Easton, for the use and benefit of her granddaughter Helen Ames Hooper for life and thereafter for other purposes, and the second by the .same persons as the trustees of an estate given in trust by the will of Frederick L. Ames, late of…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
1. As to the property held by the petitioners under the deed of Sarah L. Ames. The power of appointmen contained in this deed is not a general, but a limited power. Leaving out of view the provision for the husband of the donee of this power, about which no question is raised in this case, the persons to whom the property may be appointed are the children of the donee. The appointment cannot be made to any person not her child. She has only the power to say to whom of these children and in what proportions the property shall go.
A strong argument has been addressed to us in favor of the…
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