Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Becker

This is a petition for instructions by the trustee (the trust company) under the will of Francis X. Fitzpatrick (the testator) as modified by an agreement of compromise executed on December 31, 1921 (the compromise agreement) 1 The trust company desires instructions as to the disposition of (a) “one-half of the property held by it as [t]rustee for the benefit of Ann F. Fitzpatrick” (Ann), and (b) “the property remaining in its hands as [t]rustee for the benefit of Antoinette B-. Lawton” (Antoinette) and others. The answers admitted most of the aliegations of the petition. The case has been…