Sewall v. Roberts
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bell in equity by the executor of the will of Robert Roberts, to obtain the instructions of the court as to the disposal of the trust fund hereinafter mentioned.
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Bell in equity by the executor of the will of Robert Roberts, to obtain the instructions of the court as to the disposal of the trust fund hereinafter mentioned. The case was reserved by Ames, J., on the bill, answers and report; and thereby appeared to be as follows : On June 2, 1825, Nathaniel Curtis and Isaac Clapp, the ad ministrators of Robert Roberts, Senior, calling themselves trustees of Robert Roberts of Boston, the testator, deposited with the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, and received from the company the following instrument…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
In June, 1825, Nathaniel Curtis and Isaac Clapp, the administrators of Robert Roberts, Senior, describing themselves as trustees of Robert Roberts, deposited with the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, and received from the company the instrument called an annuity in trust, of which a copy is annexed to the bill. The source from which Curtis and Clapp received this sum is not directly stated in the report, but the only fair inference from the facts stated is, that it was a part of the estate of Robert Roberts, Junior, which came to him by…
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