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· 1/7/1965

Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Stone

Citations

  • 203 N.E.2d 547
  • 348 Mass. 345
  • 1965 Mass. LEXIS 816

How courts have described this case

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  • stating that trustee must divide up trust property in accordance with fair market value of property at the time of the distribution in kind
  • dealing with valuation and distribution of a portion of a trust and how administrative and legal costs should be divided from trust assets; thus, not applicable here
  • \Administrative trust provisions ... are ordinarily designed merely to simplify distribution and to make unnecessary requests for court instructions. Such a provision gives to trustees no discretion to shift beneficial interests in the trust assets.\

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Judges: Cutteb, Wilkins, Cutter, Kirk, Reardon

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