Attorney General v. Provident Institution for Savings
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk on May 5,1908, by the Attorney General under St. 1907, c. 340, against the Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston, praying for an order and decree that the sums of money named therein, deposited with the respondent and unclaimed for more than thirty years, should be paid to the treasurer and receiver general of the Commonwealth.
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Petition, filed in the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk on May 5,1908, by the Attorney General under St. 1907, c. 340, against the Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston, praying for an order and decree that the sums of money named therein, deposited with the respondent and unclaimed for more than thirty years, should be paid to the treasurer and receiver general of the Commonwealth. In the Probate Court Grant, J., made a decree in accordance with the prayer of the petition; and the respondent appealed. On appeal the case came on to be heard before Boring, J., who…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
This application to the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk was made by the Attorney General, under the St. 1907, c. 340, which is now found in the St. 1908, c. 590, §§ 56 and 57. This statute is as follows:
“ Section One. The probate court shall, upon the application of the attorney general and after public notice, order and decree that all amounts of money heretofore or hereafter deposited with any savings bank or trust company to the credit of depositors who have not made a deposit on said account, or withdrawn any part thereof, or the interest, or on whose pass books the interest has…
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