The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial last week ruled against the claim to a $26,000 bequest. It a lower court decision. Miss. Mary A. Shea of Cambridge had designated the College as the beneficiary of her estate, but six days more her death in 1961 she changed her in favor of her cousin, Bernard J. a former FBI agent. Over a protest from the College that a second will had been drawn while Shea was mentally unsound, the on April 2 awarded Dwyer $6000 a $20,000 duplex on Putnam St. in Cambridge. Gratitude
According to Phillip M. Cronin '53, an representing the College, Miss original bequest to the College partially out of gratitude for an degree awarded to her brother, late John E. Shea. Shea had been of the stacks in Widener thirty years. the trial Cronin enlisted the of a physician who had examined Shea near the time she drew up second will. He said that Miss Shea not of sound mind at that time. Awyers attorney pointed out, how that the physician had not Miss Shea on the day she changed will. All three witnesses to the will to Miss Shea's mental soundness. Harvard's 'Duty'
Harvard, as a charitable institution, a duty to protect the manifestory of its donors," said Cronin in interview yesterday. "We felt," he "that under these unusual it was necessary to bring an of the facts before a court law." The Supreme Judicial Court declared in a decision that "from a careful review the entire record we are satisfied that he was no error."
Miss. Mary A. Shea of Cambridge had designated the College as the beneficiary of her estate, but six days more her death in 1961 she changed her in favor of her cousin, Bernard J. a former FBI agent. Over a protest from the College that a second will had been drawn while Shea was mentally unsound, the on April 2 awarded Dwyer $6000 a $20,000 duplex on Putnam St. in Cambridge. Gratitude
According to Phillip M. Cronin '53, an representing the College, Miss original bequest to the College partially out of gratitude for an degree awarded to her brother, late John E. Shea. Shea had been of the stacks in Widener thirty years. the trial Cronin enlisted the of a physician who had examined Shea near the time she drew up second will. He said that Miss Shea not of sound mind at that time. Awyers attorney pointed out, how that the physician had not Miss Shea on the day she changed will. All three witnesses to the will to Miss Shea's mental soundness. Harvard's 'Duty'
Harvard, as a charitable institution, a duty to protect the manifestory of its donors," said Cronin in interview yesterday. "We felt," he "that under these unusual it was necessary to bring an of the facts before a court law." The Supreme Judicial Court declared in a decision that "from a careful review the entire record we are satisfied that he was no error."
Over a protest from the College that a second will had been drawn while Shea was mentally unsound, the on April 2 awarded Dwyer $6000 a $20,000 duplex on Putnam St. in Cambridge. Gratitude
According to Phillip M. Cronin '53, an representing the College, Miss original bequest to the College partially out of gratitude for an degree awarded to her brother, late John E. Shea. Shea had been of the stacks in Widener thirty years. the trial Cronin enlisted the of a physician who had examined Shea near the time she drew up second will. He said that Miss Shea not of sound mind at that time. Awyers attorney pointed out, how that the physician had not Miss Shea on the day she changed will. All three witnesses to the will to Miss Shea's mental soundness. Harvard's 'Duty'
Harvard, as a charitable institution, a duty to protect the manifestory of its donors," said Cronin in interview yesterday. "We felt," he "that under these unusual it was necessary to bring an of the facts before a court law." The Supreme Judicial Court declared in a decision that "from a careful review the entire record we are satisfied that he was no error."
Gratitude
According to Phillip M. Cronin '53, an representing the College, Miss original bequest to the College partially out of gratitude for an degree awarded to her brother, late John E. Shea. Shea had been of the stacks in Widener thirty years. the trial Cronin enlisted the of a physician who had examined Shea near the time she drew up second will. He said that Miss Shea not of sound mind at that time. Awyers attorney pointed out, how that the physician had not Miss Shea on the day she changed will. All three witnesses to the will to Miss Shea's mental soundness. Harvard's 'Duty'
Harvard, as a charitable institution, a duty to protect the manifestory of its donors," said Cronin in interview yesterday. "We felt," he "that under these unusual it was necessary to bring an of the facts before a court law." The Supreme Judicial Court declared in a decision that "from a careful review the entire record we are satisfied that he was no error."
the trial Cronin enlisted the of a physician who had examined Shea near the time she drew up second will. He said that Miss Shea not of sound mind at that time. Awyers attorney pointed out, how that the physician had not Miss Shea on the day she changed will. All three witnesses to the will to Miss Shea's mental soundness. Harvard's 'Duty'
Harvard, as a charitable institution, a duty to protect the manifestory of its donors," said Cronin in interview yesterday. "We felt," he "that under these unusual it was necessary to bring an of the facts before a court law." The Supreme Judicial Court declared in a decision that "from a careful review the entire record we are satisfied that he was no error."
Awyers attorney pointed out, how that the physician had not Miss Shea on the day she changed will. All three witnesses to the will to Miss Shea's mental soundness. Harvard's 'Duty'
Harvard, as a charitable institution, a duty to protect the manifestory of its donors," said Cronin in interview yesterday. "We felt," he "that under these unusual it was necessary to bring an of the facts before a court law." The Supreme Judicial Court declared in a decision that "from a careful review the entire record we are satisfied that he was no error."
Harvard's 'Duty'
Harvard, as a charitable institution, a duty to protect the manifestory of its donors," said Cronin in interview yesterday. "We felt," he "that under these unusual it was necessary to bring an of the facts before a court law." The Supreme Judicial Court declared in a decision that "from a careful review the entire record we are satisfied that he was no error."
The Supreme Judicial Court declared in a decision that "from a careful review the entire record we are satisfied that he was no error."
