Legal Opinion

DeGiacomo v. City of Quincy

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided November 15, 2016No. SJC 11940PublishedCited by 24 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtGants, C.J.

In 1971, the city of Quincy (Quincy), as trustee of the Adams Temple and School Fund (Adams Fund), filed a “bill of complaint” in equity asking a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court to enter a decree authorizing it to execute a proposed fifty-year lease of the building and parking lot of the Adams Academy that it had negotiated with the Quincy Historical Society (Society). The Attorney General was a defendant in that action, but the Woodward School for Girls, Inc. (Woodward School or School), which was the sole income beneficiary of the Adams Fund, was not. In 1972, the single…

2Cases cited32 opinions

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