Attorney General v. Armstrong
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Information in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on June 4, and amended on December 7, 1917, by the Attorney General at the relation of the members of the Methodist Religious Society in Boston, an unincorporated religious association, and of certain of the surviving trustees under the deed of William Hall Jackson to Amos Binney and others, dated March 24, 1806, and referred to in the opinion as the Jackson deed, against five of the trustees under that deed,…
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Information in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on June 4, and amended on December 7, 1917, by the Attorney General at the relation of the members of the Methodist Religious Society in Boston, an unincorporated religious association, and of certain of the surviving trustees under the deed of William Hall Jackson to Amos Binney and others, dated March 24, 1806, and referred to in the opinion as the Jackson deed, against five of the trustees under that deed, containing the prayers which are quoted below. The prayers of the bill were as follows: “1. That a temporary injunction may…
1Opinion of the CourtRtjgg, C. J.
Different aspects of the present litigation have been before this court twice. In Crawford v. Nies, 220 Mass. 61, it appeared that the real estate on Bromfield Street in Boston, where formerly worshipped the Methodist Religious Society in Boston, commonly known as the Bromfield Street Society, had been sold and there was disagreement as to the persons who as trustees should hold the proceeds. Several questions there were settled. It was held in that decision (1) that a public charitable trust in perpetuity was established by the Jackson deed of 1806, (2) that by the Jackson deed the legal…
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