Legal Opinion
Kerwin v. Donaghy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 1, 1945PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
The widow of William J. Kerwin, late of New Bedford, brought this petition in equity in the Probate Court under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 230, § 5, as amended (Walsh v. Mullen, 314 Mass. 241), against his daughter Gladys M. Donaghy and the executors of his will (the executors having refused to bring suit) to recover for the estate a large number of stocks, bonds and deposits in banks, standing in the name of or held by the respondent Gladys M. Donaghy, but owned, it was alleged, by the estate of William J. Kerwin. One of his two sons, Ernest W. Kerwin, intervened, and joined with the widow in…
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