Legal Opinion
Fitts v. Powell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 27, 1940PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDolan, J.
This is a suit in equity in which the petitioners, who are trustees under the will of James M. Fair-field, late of Boston, deceased, seek instructions as to the proper disposition of that share of the income of the trust estate to which Agenora D. Fairfield, now deceased, was entitled during her life under the terms of the will.
The will of the testator is composed of the will itself and five codicils. These instruments were allowed, but were to be executed in accordance with an agreement of compromise the terms of which, so far as appears, do not affect the question now presented for…
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