Porter v. Ketchum
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
1Opinion of the Court
Interlocutory and final decrees affirmed. This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree sustaining a demurrer and from a final decree dismissing the bill. The bill alleges that “[t]he defendants as executors violated their duty to the plaintiff in failing to notify him at the time of the first payment [to certain other beneficiaries] of a cash legacy in full without a bond that they were making this payment . . . [and that] [t]he defendants violated their duty to the plaintiff in failing to pay . . . [him] his legacy in full at the time that the first cash legacy was paid in full without a…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Miller v. Parish of EpiphanyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Wellman v. Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- North v. City Council of BrocktonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1960
- Sibley v. LivermoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1955
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- Ciszewski v. Industrial Accident BoardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975