Trustees of Dartmouth College v. City of Quincy

The petitioner (Dartmouth) brings this petition in equity in the Probate Court to enjoin the city of Quincy (as trustee of the charitable trust established under the will of Dr. Ebenezer Woodward) and the trustees and principal of the Woodward School from admitting to that school “any girl who was not, either born in . . . Quincy, or bom of a parent who at the time of such child’s birth, was either domiciled in or a resident of . . . Quincy.” The final decree granted an injunction in accordance with this prayer of the petition. There is a report of material facts on the basis of which the…