Greenough v. Osgood
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the, county of Suffolk on August 25, 1919, by the trustees under an antenuptial declaration of trust made by Hannah Parkman Newell, in contemplation of her marriage to Edward S. Osgood. The material allegations of fact, which were admitted to be true by the defendants in their answers, and such of the facts included in agreed statements of fact as are material, are stated in the opinion.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the, county of Suffolk on August 25, 1919, by the trustees under an antenuptial declaration of trust made by Hannah Parkman Newell, in contemplation of her marriage to Edward S. Osgood. The material allegations of fact, which were admitted to be true by the defendants in their answers, and such of the facts included in agreed statements of fact as are material, are stated in the opinion. The suit came on to be heard before Carroll, J., who reserved it for determination by the full court.
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
This cause was reserved for the full court by a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court upon the pleadings and agreed statements of fact, and is a bill in equity for instructions by the trustees under an antenuptial declaration of trust, made in Massachusetts on May 7, 1860, by Hannah Parkman Newell, in contemplation of a marriage which was intended to be, and in fact shortly was, solemnized between the said Hannah P. Newell and one Edward S. Osgood.
All the property put in trust belonged to Hannah Parkman Newell and was inherited from her mother, who resided in Boston, Massachusetts, and…
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