Legal Opinion

Fitzsimmons v. Dooley

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided October 27, 1965Published

1Opinion of the Court

This is a petition in equity in the Probate Court to determine the title to three paid-up share accounts and a savings account in the Meeting House Hill Cooperative Bank in Dorchester. The present appeal by the respondent John J. Dooley challenges that portion of the decree which awarded the proceeds ($7,000) of the paid-up share account represented by certificate No. 5036 to the petitioner as special administratrix of the estate of William F. Dooley. John further chai-, lenges the decree in so far as it awards to the petitioner (in addition to a counsel fee of $1,200 to be paid out of the…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Lucier v. WilliamsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1948
  2. Hurley v. NooneMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1964
  3. Reynolds v. ReynoldsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1950
  4. Coles v. GoldieMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1960

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