WAYNE ALBON SCOTT, SR., ) MELISSA WINDHAM, SCOTT BARKLEY, WAYNE ) ALBON SCOTT, JR., MARION LINDELL SCOTT, ) EDWARD HITE SCOTT, FRANCES BATES HAIR, ) DORIS BATES QUARLES, ANGELA B. BATES, ) JAMES TODD BATES, WILLIAM EDWARD BATES, ) JERRY MICHAEL BATES, TERESA ANN BATES, ) DAVID EVERETTE BATES, JR., CLYDE ANDERSON ) BATES III, ILENE BATES FORD, WILLIAM A. RAWL, ) JR., JOHN DURHAM BONEY, JR., NANCY BONEY ) LEE, VANDERLYN S. RAWL, JAMES FRANK RAWL, ) JR., BETTY ANNE RAWL, LAWRENCE ) LAFFORTHUN, THE ESTATE OF GEORGE EDWARD ) GERRIE, deceased, JEAN HAMLIN REITER, LINDA F. ) McCULLOGH KILGORE, JAMES BERT FITZGERALD, ) MICHAEL R. FITZGERALD, KATHLEEN FITZGERALD) INGRAM, JEFFREY TODD HAMLIN, MICHONE ) ELIZABETH HAMLIN SNYDER, ERIC J. NILSON, not ) individually but as TRUSTEE OF THE PAUL G. ) HAMLIN TRUST, ADA MARGARET BYRNE ) WHEELER HUNTER, BARBRA ANN WHEELER ) PATCH, GEORGE FORREST BUTTERWORTH III, ) LUCILE WHEELER-VAUGHN, HARRY ROBERTS ) WHEELER, JR., FREDERICK HASKELL WHEELER, ) DAVID HALE BURLAND, NAOMI LUCILE ) BURLAND WAHLSTROM, HASKELL ROBBINS ) BURLAND, MONA KOELB CLIFFORD, PALMER ) WHEELER KOELB, WRIGHT BARTON ALDRIDGE, ) JR., ADELE K. HANNAH, GERALD H. GAGNIER, ) MARIE N. GONYO, ROLAND GONYO, MARIAN ) EUNICE NORTH WINCH, GULLIFORD, RODNEY E. ) NORTH, CAROLINE MABEL NORTH PASCO, ) MARVIN E. KRAUSS, CHARLES BREWSTER ) PRENTISS III, JULIAN BLAKE PRENTISS HAGEN, ) JULIA M. PRENTISS, ROBERT THADDEUS ) ELLETT III, THELMA D. ELLETT, LARS R. HAGEN, ) SR., LOIS G. PHILLIPS, JEANETTA HARD ) WEATHERFORD, WILLIAM HENRY HARD, ) ARTHUR L. JONES, MARY RIVERS KELLO, ) JOSEPH H. McGEE, JR., CHARLES GOODWIN ) WHITMIRE, JAMES MARTIN WHITMIRE, JR., ) EVELYN JENNINGS WHITMIRE, FRANCES C. )
SIMONDS, JOHN C. SIMONDS, JR,. CHARLES R. ) SIMONDS, AUGUSTUS H. HAYDEN IV, THOMAS ) EPTING HAYDEN, SUZANNE JANOTHA, MANFRED ) JANOTHA , THOMAS MARSHALL WEST IV, ) STEPHEN M. WEST, KATHERINE McCALLUM ) GOODWIN, ELIZABETH W. WEST, CAROLINE ) HASKELL SIMPSON, DIANA HASKELL SHEWALTER,) HENRY HAMILTON HASKELL, SR., MARY ) THEODOSIA HASKELL, JAMES TILLSON, MARIAN ) BLAYNEY TILLSON, THOMAS PAGET TILLSON, ) STEPHEN TILLSON, LINDABISSELL KNECHTEL, ) STORY BISSELL KORNBLUTH, GRAHAM HENRY ) RICHARDSON, PAGET DANIELS RICHARDSON, ) CINTHIA RICHARDSON CALKINS, LOUIS DEAN ) FREDERIC FRASCHE, ROBERT McLANE FRASCHE, ) JAMES WILLIAM FRASCHE, FRANCES P. DODD ) PAHLMANN, NANCY DODD FERGUS, SANDRA ) HASKELL DODD WILKINSON, THE ESTATE OF ) WILLIAM MILLER OUTCALT, JR., deceased, and ) certain unknown potential remainder beneficiaries, ) ) Defendants-Appellees ) ) (The New England Conservatory of Music, ) Honorable Bernetta D. Bush, ) Judge Presiding Defendant-Appellant). )
JUSTICE MURPHY delivered the opinion of the court:
This action was brought by plaintiff, The Northern Trust Company, as trustee of the
Caroline E. Haskell Trust (Northern Trust), which sought instructions from the trial court on how
to distribute the trust principal upon termination of the trust. Defendant New England
Conservatory of Music (NEC) and defendant Charles C. Eliot filed cross-motions for summary
judgment arising from their mutual claim of the same one-sixth share of the trust