Billings v. Fowler

How courts have described this case

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• complaint seeking declaratory relief may be utilized to same effect as traditional petitions for instructions
• c. 231A “was intended to expand, at least in the discretion of the court, prior provisions for the interpretation of written instruments”
• Court construed the terms of a will even though no direct, immediate interest of the present life beneficiary would be affected, and immediate estate planning problems were evident and dependent on a resolution of the subject ambiguity
• “estate planning interest is sufficient to permit declaratory relief”
• “estate planning interest is sufficient to permit declaratory relief’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).