In Re Estate of Thompson

DUFRESNE, Active Retired Justice.

The four intervenors as potential cy pres beneficiaries of the charitable trust set up in the will of Frederick M. Thompson (testator) and the Attorney General of the State of Maine appeal to the Law Court from a judgment of the Superior Court, Cumberland County, sitting as the Supreme Court of Probate in Equity, to the effect that the Canal National Bank, the plaintiff successor-trustee, shall hold the reference trust as a resulting trust for the benefit of those persons taking by intestate succession under the estate of Frederick M. Thompson. We sustain the…