Adams Female Academy v. Adams
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Bill in Equity, by the trustees of the Adams Female Academy, asking for leave to sell certain real estate, and to apply the whole income of the institution, according to an act of the legislature, to the support of a public school in connection with the town of Derry.
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Bill in Equity, by the trustees of the Adams Female Academy, asking for leave to sell certain real estate, and to apply the whole income of the institution, according to an act of the legislature, to the support of a public school in connection with the town of Derry. The original fund of the academy was given to a board of trustees by Jacob Adams, by will, “ to establish a female academy in Londonderry for the education of females,” the location of such academy being fixed by the will.
1Opinion
The defendants submit as a substitute for the plan of administering the fund proposed by the trustees, and approved by the court upon a former consideration of this case, that the fund be placed in the hands of the trustees of Pinkerton academy as successors to the trustees of the Adams Female Academy, or that the trustees of the Adams Female Academy be authorized and directed to pay over to the trustees of Pinkerton academy the annual income thereof, to be applied to the payment of the tuition of females who may be deemed deserving by the trustees of Pinkerton academy, and who may reside…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Plaisted v. HolmesSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1879