Attorney General v. City of Lowell

This is an information by the Attorney General to declare and establish a public charitable trust and to compel the defendant to perform its obligations with respect thereto. By the will of Thomas Nesmith, late of Lowell, a gift of $25,000 was made to the defendant. The avowed purpose of the gift was to devote that sum in charity to aid, encourage and enable better to sustain themselves many struggling people “ who linger between competency and poverty — who from accidental misfortune, sickness, failure of employment, or other imperious cause, are temporarily in need of charitable assistance,…