Adams v. Adams
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal from a decree of the Probate Court for the County of Middlesex on a petition under St. 1905, c. 326, asking for the appointment of trustees and the distribution among them of a trust estate held by the respondent Edward E. Adams, as trustee under the will of George S. Adams, late of Belmont, for the benefit of George Franklin Adams and others.
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Appeal from a decree of the Probate Court for the County of Middlesex on a petition under St. 1905, c. 326, asking for the appointment of trustees and the distribution among them of a trust estate held by the respondent Edward E. Adams, as trustee under the will of George S. Adams, late of Belmont, for the benefit of George Franklin Adams and others. The appeal was heard upon an agreed statement of facts by Hammond, J., who made a final decree “that the decree of the Probate Court appealed from and dated February 13, 1911, declaring that George Franklin Adams is an absentee within the meaning…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is a petition for the appointment of trustees and the distribution among them of a trust estate in accordance with the provisions of St. 1905, c. 326. The salient features of that act are that after fourteen years from the date of disappearance, absconding or absence from the State of a beneficiary of a trust created by will, wherein a trustee has been appointed by a Probate Court of this Commonwealth, any person who would be interested in such trust, if the absentee was dead, may petition the Probate Court for a transfer of the trust fund and its accumulations “to the persons as…
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