Legal Opinion
Wardens & Vestry of St. Paul's Church v. Attorney General
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 16, 1895PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
This is a bill in equity, filed on August 7, 1891, to obtain the instructions of the court in relation to certain trusts created by David Sears. The defendants are the Attorney General of the Commonwealth, the Proprietors of St. Paul’s Church in Boston, the surviving executor of the will of David Sears, the trustees under his. will, his eldest grandson, his heirs at law, and Trinity Church.
On March 1, 1821, David Sears conveyed, by six separate deeds, six pews in St. Paul’s Church in Boston to the Wardens and Vestry of said church, and their successors in office, in trust to lease the pews…
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