State Street Trust Co. v. Sampson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on December 30, 1916, by the trustees under the will of Samuel A. Walker, late of Nahant, who died on May 23, 1880, for instructions. The case came on to be heard before Crosby, J., who at the, request of the parties reserved it upon the bill and the answers thereto for determination by the full court. The essential facts disclosed by the record are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is a bill for instructions as to the disposition *412of a fund held by trustees under the will of Samuel A. Walker, who died in 1880. By the fourteenth article of that will the residuum of the estate was given to trustees for the benefit of children of the testator and the issue of a deceased daughter. The estate was to be divided into equal shares, one for the benefit of each surviving child and one for the issue of each deceased child taking by right of representation. The estate accordingly was divided into nine shares. The will contained specific directions as to the distribution of the…
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