Mason v. Pomeroy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed December 5, 1887, against Silas H. Pomeroy, Charles Atwater, and William Turnbull, individually and as trustees under the will of Theodore Pomeroy, and against Theodore L. Pomeroy, by the first named plaintiff and others doing business under the firm name of Samuel Thompson’s Nephew & Co., in behalf of themselves and other similar creditors of the trust estate, to reach and apply such estate in payment of their debts.
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Bill in equity, filed December 5, 1887, against Silas H. Pomeroy, Charles Atwater, and William Turnbull, individually and as trustees under the will of Theodore Pomeroy, and against Theodore L. Pomeroy, by the first named plaintiff and others doing business under the firm name of Samuel Thompson’s Nephew & Co., in behalf of themselves and other similar creditors of the trust estate, to reach and apply such estate in payment of their debts. The case was referred to a master, who allowed the claims of the plaintiffs, and of many other creditors of the estate, and reported specially upon certain…
1Opinion of the CourtC. Allen, J.
The late Theodore Pomeroy devised his mills and manufacturing property to three trustees, in trust, to continue and carry on his manufacturing business until his son, Theodore L. Pomeroy, should arrive at the age of twenty-one years. They were to provide for the outstanding and current liabilities, and to incur on account of said trust estate, during the continuance of the trust, such further liabilities as a wise and prudent management might require, and when his said son should become twenty-one years of age to convey the property to the testator’s two sons, Silas H. and Theodore L., or in…
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