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Williams v. Fritz

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Norfolk
Mar 8, 1926
151 N.E. 111 (Mass. 1926)

Opinion

March 5, 1926.

March 8, 1926.

Present: RUGG, C.J., CROSBY, PIERCE, CARROLL, WAIT, JJ.

Probate Court, Jury issues.

The record of an appeal from an order of a judge of probate, denying a motion to frame issues for a jury upon a petition to prove a will, was held to present no new question of law and to disclose no reversible error.

PETITION, filed in the Probate Court for the county of Norfolk on August 24, 1925, for the proof of the will of Thomas L. Williams, late of Quincy.

Lauretta E. Fritz, daughter, appeared to oppose the petition and moved for the framing of jury issues. The motion was heard by McCoole, J., and was denied. The contestant appealed.

J.L. Edwards, for the respondent.

J.D. Mackay, for the petitioner.


This appeal from an order of the judge of probate, denying a motion to frame issues for a jury upon a petition to prove a will, presents no new question of law and discloses no reversible error. Wilbar v. Diamond, 249 Mass. 568, Old Colony Trust Co. v. Spaulding, 250 Mass. 400, Adams v. Blair, ante, 152, and cases collected in each opinion.

Order denying issues to a jury affirmed.


Summaries of

Williams v. Fritz

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Norfolk
Mar 8, 1926
151 N.E. 111 (Mass. 1926)
Case details for

Williams v. Fritz

Case Details

Full title:EVA B. WILLIAMS vs. LAURETTA E. FRITZ

Court:Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Norfolk

Date published: Mar 8, 1926

Citations

151 N.E. 111 (Mass. 1926)
151 N.E. 111

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