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EATON v. BOSTON TRUST CO.

No. 466.

240 U.S. 427 (1916)

36 S.Ct. 391

60 L.Ed. 723

EATON, TRUSTEE IN BANKRUPTCY OF LUKE, v. BOSTON SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY, TRUSTEE OF LEIGHTON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 13, 1916.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Raymond H. Oveson, Mr. Alexander Kendall and Mr. Matthew Hale for defendant in error in support of the motion.

Mr. Gilbert E. Kemp for plaintiff in error in opposition thereto.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill for instructions, brought by the Trust Company, the principal defendant in error, to ascertain whether a fund bequeathed to it in trust for Mrs. Luke, codefendant in error, passed to her trustee in bankruptcy. The bequest was of seventy-five thousand dollars, "The whole of the net income thereof to be paid my adopted daughter, Fannie Leighton Luke, wife...

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