Schneider v. Hayward
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on December 18, 1914, and a supplemental bill filed in" the same court on December 10, 1915, by one of the beneficiaries of a trust created by a deed dated December 28, 1911, executed by the plaintiff’s father, William E. Hayward, late of Brookline, who died on August 5, 1914, and further defined by an agreement of trust dated December 12, 1912, against the trustees under the deed, one of whom was Clara M. Hayward, the…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on December 18, 1914, and a supplemental bill filed in" the same court on December 10, 1915, by one of the beneficiaries of a trust created by a deed dated December 28, 1911, executed by the plaintiff’s father, William E. Hayward, late of Brookline, who died on August 5, 1914, and further defined by an agreement of trust dated December 12, 1912, against the trustees under the deed, one of whom was Clara M. Hayward, the widow of the settlor, for an accounting. The proceedings in the case, including the reports of two masters, are described in…
1Opinion of the CourtHugg, C. J.
This suit in equity is brought by one of three beneficiaries under a deed of trust executed by William E. Hayward, against the trustees, to compel an accounting and a settlement of the trust. It was referred to a master on the original and supplementary bills and answers under a rule which required him to find and report the facts. No evidence was reported. Although exceptions were taken, these were overruled by an interlocutory decree from which no appeal was taken. The case was sent to another master “to state the final account” of the trustees and “to find and report all sums with which”…
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