Putnam v. Collamore
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity by George Putnam, Jr., administrator de bonis non, with the will annexed, of George W. Collamore, and trustee under the said will, against John H. Collamore and the widow and children of the testator.
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Bill in equity by George Putnam, Jr., administrator de bonis non, with the will annexed, of George W. Collamore, and trustee under the said will, against John H. Collamore and the widow and children of the testator. The bill alleged that Maria E. Ames died in 1845, leaving a will by which she devised-real estate in trust for the benefit of the plaintiff’s testator and of John H. Collamore and their heirs in equal shares; that John A. Andrew was trustee under this will, that the plaintiff’s testator in 1847 executed a deed by which he conveyed an undivided half of certain real estate to Andrew…
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
It is not contended that this can be maintained as a bill of interpleader. It is brought under the rule allowing any one, acting under judicial appointment in charge of a trust, who is threatened with suits, or otherwise embarrassed with conflicting claims, to apply to this court for instructions in regard to the administration of the trust, and for protection therein. Hot only parties making formal claims upon the trustee, adverse to each other, but all persons supposed to have an interest in the subject matter, or upon whom it is desired that the decision should be conclusive, may be…
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