Morville v. Fowle
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, by one of three trustees under a deed of trust, against George W. Fowle and Nicholson Broughton, Jr., his co-trustees, and the Boylston Congregational Church, a religious society duly incorporated by law, to have certain deeds declared void, and to compel reconveyances of the land named therein. At the hearing, a decree was ordered for the plaintiff, in accordance with the prayer of the bill; and the defendants appealed to the full court.
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Bill in equity, by one of three trustees under a deed of trust, against George W. Fowle and Nicholson Broughton, Jr., his co-trustees, and the Boylston Congregational Church, a religious society duly incorporated by law, to have certain deeds declared void, and to compel reconveyances of the land named therein. At the hearing, a decree was ordered for the plaintiff, in accordance with the prayer of the bill; and the defendants appealed to the full court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
If a final decree of a justice of this court is appealed from, without any report or request for a report of the evidence or facts, the only question presented is whether the decree is warranted by the allegations and prayer of the bill. O'Hare v. Downing, 130 Mass. 16.
The plaintiff and the two individual defendants were trustees under a deed, by which certain land was conveyed “ in trust for the uses of a Sabbath school and for the diffusion of Christian *111principles as taught and practised by Christian Evangelical denominations, with power to erect, repair, and renew from time to time all…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Old South Society v. CrockerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
- O'Hare v. DowningMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1880
- Sloo v. LawU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1856
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- City of Boston v. DoyleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
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