Adams v. Adams
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, by the surviving trustee under the will of Peter C. Brooks, to obtain the instructions of the court as to the disposition of the trust fund. Hearing before Field, J., who reserved the case for the consideration of the full court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
Peter C. Brooks, who died on June 3, 1880, by his will gave the residue of his property to trustees, upon trust to pay all of the net income (not required for the payment of two annuities) to Susan Oliver Brooks, his wife, so long as she should live, and at her death to distribute the fund (excepting so much as might be required for the payment of the two annuities) among those who would take as distributees of his personal estate by the laws of this Commonwealth, if he had died intestate immediately after the death of his wife. His wife died on February 2, 1884. At her death, the trust fund…
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