Coolidge v. Loring
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on December 10, 1919, and afterwards amended, by J. Randolph Coolidge and Julia Coolidge, his wife, settlors under a declaration of trust, against the trustees and all beneficiaries thereunder. By an interlocutory decree, a guardian ad litem and next friend was appointed, to represent all of the defendants who were minors and all persons not ascertained or not in being who were or might become interested in the suit.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on December 10, 1919, and afterwards amended, by J. Randolph Coolidge and Julia Coolidge, his wife, settlors under a declaration of trust, against the trustees and all beneficiaries thereunder. By an interlocutory decree, a guardian ad litem and next friend was appointed, to represent all of the defendants who were minors and all persons not ascertained or not in being who were or might become interested in the suit. The material facts, which were agreed upon, are stated in the opinion. The suit was heard upon the pleadings and the agreed…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
This is a suit in equity to reform a declaration of trust. The plaintiffs are the settlors. The parties defendant are the trustees, the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the settlors, and the wives of their four married sons. Together they constitute all the living persons who may be interested in the trust. The defendants who are minors, and persons not yet in being who may become interested, are represented by a guardian ad litem.
The trust was created in 1907 by the conveyance by the settlors of real estate and securities to the trusteés, who executed, contemporaneously,…
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