Bancroft v. Maine State Sanatorium Ass'n
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Bill in equity to determine the ownership of a fund of two hundréd thousand dollars and accrued interest amounting to more than thirty thousand dollars, in the hands of the plaintiffs as trustees. There were several defendants.
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Bill in equity to determine the ownership of a fund of two hundréd thousand dollars and accrued interest amounting to more than thirty thousand dollars, in the hands of the plaintiffs as trustees. There were several defendants. On written motion said bill was dismissed in so far as it was brought against Walter H. Roberts, Walter S. Fox and Theodore Chamberlin, executors of the will of Eleazer D. Chamberlin, appointed in Massachusetts, and also said bill was dismissed in so far as it was brought against Hannah Williams, deceased, without costs in each instance. The bill was amended on written…
1Opinion of the CourtCornish, C. J.
Eleazer D. Chamberlin a wealthy citizen of Newton, Massachusetts, on February 28, 1910, placed in the hands of Charles O. Bancroft, Charles H. Payson and Franklin C. Payson, all *59of Portland, Maine, a fund of two hundred thousand dollars in trust for the uses and purposes and subject to the conditions, limitations and stipulations expressed in a certain declaration of trust of that date, signed by said trustees.
The uses and purposes were as follows: “To invest and reinvest said fund in interest bearing securities and property and to pay over the net income thereof semi-annually, and oftenor if…
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