Massachusetts High Court Overturns Trust-Fund Ruling.

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) | Date: September 17, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Kathleen Burge

Sep. 17--The state's highest court ruled yesterday that a lower-court judge erred by automatically rejecting a candidate for the lucrative position of overseeing the trust funds of Lotta M. Crabtree, a child star and actress who died a millionaire in 1924.

Crabtree was unmarried when she died in a Boston hotel she owned, leaving behind a $3 million estate and a will creating a string of trusts that benefited a host of causes, including a...

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