Estate of Smead

Motions have been made to dismiss the several appeals in each of the above-entitled proceedings. The facts underlying the litigation are involved and we shall recite only such as are necessary to a consideration of the motions now before us. It appears that in the course of the administration of the estate of each of the above-named decedents, the probate court, pursuant to the terms of a testamentary trust provided for in the will of each decedent, appointed the respondent, who was also executor, trustee of each of said trusts. Subsequently, the life beneficiaries died and the corpus of the…