MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY v. LORING


327 Mass. 553 (1951)

99 N.E.2d 854

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & others vs. AUGUSTUS P. LORING, JUNIOR, & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

May 10, 1951.

June 29, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C.C. Cabot, (J.B. Ames, H.T. Davis, & J.M. Woolsey, Jr., with him,) for Massachusetts Institute of Technology and others.

R.G. Dodge, (T. Chase & R.M. Robinson with him,) for Augustus P. Loring, Jr., and others.

T.L. Gannon, (F.T. Doyle & F.T. Doyle, Jr., with him,) for Edmund Bailey Frye and others, executors.

Present: LUMMUS, WILKINS, WILLIAMS, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


LUMMUS, J.

This case involves the interpretation of the will of Marian Hovey, late of Gloucester, an unmarried woman, who died on August 28, 1898, and whose will was admitted to probate on October 3, 1898.

The petition before us was filed in the Probate Court on July 21, 1950, by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Museum of Fine Arts, and the President and Fellows of Harvard College, hereinafter collectively called the charities. They claim to be remaindermen...

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