Legal Opinion
Strout v. Burgess
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided August 12, 1949PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMerrill, J.
This is an appeal from a decision of a single Justice of the Superior Court sitting in equity. The bill was filed by Alfred M. Strout, Administrator of the Estate of Charles T. Burgess against Charles M. Burgess, a nephew of the deceased. It was brought to recover certain certificates of corporate stock contained in a safety deposit box in The Thomaston National Bank in the name of “Charles T. Burgess or Charles M. Burgess.” The certificates and the shares represented thereby were claimed by the plaintiff as assets of the estate of Charles T. Burgess, and by the bill he sought to recover them…
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