Legal Opinion
Briggs v. Crowley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 8, 1967PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpiegel, J.
This is a petition in equity filed in the Probate Court by a life beneficiary under a trust for an accounting from the trustees and for other equitable relief. The petitioner amended the petition on two occasions after the respondents’ demurrers thereto were sustained. The petitioner appeals from the decree sustaining the demurrer to her second amended petition and from the decree dismissing that petition.
The material allegations in the petition are as follows. On February 8, 1938, Ada Langley Briggs executed a deed of trust of certain assets to herself and the respondents as trustees. “The…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- United States v. PowellCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1962
- Wood v. HoneymanOregon Supreme Court · 1945
- Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. StoneMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965
- Weinstein v. Chief of Police of Fall RiverMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1962
- DeVincent Ford Sales, Inc. v. First Mass. Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1957
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Markham, etc v. FayCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1996
- McAdams v. Massachusetts Mutual Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2004
- Old Colony Trust Company, of the Estate of John H. Cunningham v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1970
- Dana v. GringMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Harrison v. MarcusMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1985
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