Legal Opinion

Scott v. Rand

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided September 2, 1875PublishedCited by 19 opinions

Bill in equity by Theodosia Scott, suing by her next friend, against' Edward S. Rand, Jr., and Charles Scott, to enforce a trust. After the decision overruling the defendants’ demurrers to the bill, 115 Mass. 104, answers were filed and the case reserved by Colt, J., for the consideration of the full court, upon an agreed statement of facts, the nature of which appears in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtColt, J.

The bill was originally brought by Mrs. Scott against Rand alone, charging that he had wrongfully and without notice to her delivered to her husband certain funds held by him in trust for her, under an indenture to which Rand and her husband were parties, and that Rand had since refused to pay her the income to which by the terms of the instrument she was enti*216tied. The prayer of thu bill is that he may be required to pay her the income which ought to have been received, and transfer the principal fund or its equivalent to some person to be appointed by the court trustee in his place.

The bill,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Scott v. RandMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1874

3Cited by19 opinions

  1. May v. MaySupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  2. Shirk v. WalkerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
  3. Colbert v. HennesseyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1966
  4. Cooney v. MontanaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1964
  5. Wilson v. WilsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888

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