Crawford v. Nies
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on June 7, 1913, by George A. Crawford, Alexander S. Heath, Ray P. Stewart and Alvah G. Sleeper, four of nine persons appointed in 1913 by the Supreme Judicial Court, in a suit entitled Trustees of the Methodist Religious Society in Boston v. Albert R. Whittier, as successors to the trustees named in a deed, dated March 25, 1806, of William Hall Jackson to Amos Binney and others, as trustees, of property on Bromfield Street…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on June 7, 1913, by George A. Crawford, Alexander S. Heath, Ray P. Stewart and Alvah G. Sleeper, four of nine persons appointed in 1913 by the Supreme Judicial Court, in a suit entitled Trustees of the Methodist Religious Society in Boston v. Albert R. Whittier, as successors to the trustees named in a deed, dated March 25, 1806, of William Hall Jackson to Amos Binney and others, as trustees, of property on Bromfield Street in Boston (which is described in the opinion) and to trustees appointed in previous legislative enactments and suits in…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The defendants after the decision and order for a final decree in Crawford v. Nies, 220 Mass. 61, were permitted to file a cross bill. The original plaintiffs having answered and issue having been joined the case was recommitted to the master, and under the reservation of the single justice is before us upon the pleadings, the master’s report and the exceptions thereto, with leave to refer “to the printed record in the original case, such final decree or decrees to be ordered on the entire case as to justice and equity shall appertain.” We shall for convenience in designation refer to the…
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