Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Blackwell

This is a petition filed by a trustee, asking that it be instructed what disposition to make of the property held in trust under the third article of the will of Henry Pfaff, Jr. The judge of probate has reserved the case on the petition, answers, and stipulated facts, such decree to be made as justice and equity require.

The will was executed February 6, 1903. The testator then had a wife and two children — a daughter, slightly less than nine years old, and a son not quite six years of age. By article two of his will, he gave to Gerard Bement and his heirs forever one third of his estate in…