Attorney General v. Union Society of Worcester
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Information in equity by the Attorney General, at the relation of the Rev. Henry T. Cheever, alleging that the Union Society of Worcester, the trustee under the will of , Ichabod Washburn of certain real estate and of a fund of twenty thousand dollars had misapplied a part of the income of said fund. Gray, C. J., gave judgment for the defendant, and the Attorney General appealed. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The information before as presents a question o. construction, arising upon the will of Ichabod Washburn, late of Worcester, whereby he devised to the Union Society a certain tract of land, with a meeting-house known as the Mission Chapel, and other buildings thereon, and also bequeathed to the same society the sum of twenty thousand dollars, both upon the trusts and for the purposes declared in the will. The plan which the testator proposes as a charity is set forth with some minuteness of detail, and is substantially a provision for a suitable and respectable place of public worship, where…
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