Eustace v. Dickey
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on March 25,1919, and afterwards amended, by Herbert W. Eustace, David B. Ogden and Lamont Rowlands, alleged therein to be trustees under a deed of Mary Baker G. Eddy dated January 25, 1898, constituting a trust to be carried on under the unincorporated name, “The Christian Science Publishing Society,” against Adam H. Dickey, James A. Neal, Edward A. Merritt and William R. Rathvon, alleged to be trustees under a deed of…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on March 25,1919, and afterwards amended, by Herbert W. Eustace, David B. Ogden and Lamont Rowlands, alleged therein to be trustees under a deed of Mary Baker G. Eddy dated January 25, 1898, constituting a trust to be carried on under the unincorporated name, “The Christian Science Publishing Society,” against Adam H. Dickey, James A. Neal, Edward A. Merritt and William R. Rathvon, alleged to be trustees under a deed of trust by Mary Baker G. Eddy dated September 1, 1892, and an amendatory deed of March 19, 1903, and also to be directors of…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is a suit in equity. The plaintiffs are three persons, who by succession are trustees under a deed of trust executed by Mary Baker G. Eddy, the founder of “Christian ■Science” so called, as donor, on January 25, 1898, to three persons therein named as trustees. The defendants are four persons alleged to be trustees under another deed of trust executed by Mrs. Eddy dated September 1, 1892, and also to be Directors of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and two other persons, each alleged to be claiming to be a trustee .and director in association with the…
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