De Normandie v. Zwinge

This is an appeal from a decision of the Probate Court for the county of Middlesex, upon a petition filed under G. L. c. 203, §§ 26-39 inclusive, prajung under § 27 that the petitioner be ordered to transfer a trust fund “to those persons as trustees who would be entitled thereto if” one Henry J. Zwinge, an absentee beneficiary, “had died *216intestate within the Commonwealth on the day fourteen years after the date of his disappearance, in the proportions to which each would be entitled.” The issue before this court is, whether the appellant is entitled to share in the distribution of one fifth…