BOSTON SAFE DEPOSIT & TRUST CO. v. CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL


370 Mass. 719 (1976)

351 N.E.2d 848

BOSTON SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY, executor and trustee, vs. THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

July 30, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irvin W. Cobb, Jr., for Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Company, executor and trustee.

Francis L. Coolidge for American Cancer Society & others.

Raymond H. Young, guardian ad litem, pro se.

Present: REARDON, QUIRICO, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.


KAPLAN, J.

The testator Seward M. Paterson died on May 31, 1971, survived by his second wife. His gross estate was in excess of $13,000,000 (as estimated for Federal estate tax purposes). His will made outright cash bequests of $2,245,000 to friends and relatives, and left all his real estate and tangible personal property and some other property, valued in all at $201,482, to his widow. Two trusts were established by the will: first, a trust, funded in the amount...

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