Legal Opinion
Tell v. Trustees of Dartmouth College
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 29, 1998No. 97-2098PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
This suit was brought in the federal district court by William Tell and six other alumni of Dartmouth College against the Trustees of Dartmouth College (the corporate name of Dartmouth College). Appellants claimed to represent Dartmouth’s alumni as a class and challenged certain changes in the arrangements for the election of trustees. ' The district court dismissed the ease for lack of an indispensable party, and this appeal followed.
Because the district court did not reach the merits, a condensed version of the dispute will suffice. Under an 1891 understanding between…
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