Murdoch, State's Attorney v. Elliot
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to secure an accounting of the funds of the Mor-, gan School of Clinton and the removal of the trustees, and for other relief, brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex County and transferred by stipulation of the parties to the Superior Court in New Haven County and referred to a committee (Henry C. White, Esq.) who heard and reported the facts; the court, Shumway, J., accepted the committee’s report, overruling a remonstrance thereto, and rendered judg.-' ment for…
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Action to secure an accounting of the funds of the Mor-, gan School of Clinton and the removal of the trustees, and for other relief, brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex County and transferred by stipulation of the parties to the Superior Court in New Haven County and referred to a committee (Henry C. White, Esq.) who heard and reported the facts; the court, Shumway, J., accepted the committee’s report, overruling a remonstrance thereto, and rendered judg.-' ment for the defendants, from which the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, C. J.
The complaint in .this case charges the trustees of the Morgan School fund with maladminis tration and impairment of the trust fund, and prays for an accounting, the removal of the trustees, and the repayment by them of any money for which they may be found liable upon such accounting. The defendants denied the charges, and the case was heard by a committee. Against the acceptance of the report of the committee the plaintiff remonstrated, but the court overruled the remonstrance and accepted the report.
It appears from the report that Charles Morgan began in 1870 to establish and endow a…
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