Belcher v. Conway

Two of the seven trustees of the Bulkeley Trust, referred to by the parties as the minority trustees, appeal from a supplementary judgment of the Superior Court applying the doctrine of approximation, or cy pres, which approved, with modifications, a plan of merger between the Bulkeley School and the Williams Memorial Institute submitted by the majority members of the board of trustees of the Bulkeley School.

The trust in question was created under the will of Leonard H. Bulkeley, who died in 1849. Under the will, all of his residuary estate was left to five named individuals, in trust, to be…