Phillips Exeter Academy v. Howard Phillips Fund, Inc.

U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit · Decided 1999-11-19

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SELYA, Circuit Judge. This appeal presents a jurisdictional tangle. The seeds for the underlying litigation were sown when the late Howard Phillips (Phillips or the testator) bequeathed all the stock in a profitable Florida-based real estate development company, Dr. Phillips, Inc. (the Company), to the Howard Phillips Fund (the Fund), upon the condition that the Fund share the p…

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