First Church in Somerville (Unitarian) v. Attorney General

This proceeding is in the nature of a complaint for instructions and, if necessary, for application of the doctrine of cy pres concerning the Tyler Fund, a charitable trust established in 1881 under the will of Columbus Tyler. It was brought by the First Church in Somerville (Unitarian) — hereafter First Church — and the Unitarian Universalist Association (Association). The plaintiffs named as defendants the Attorney General of the Commonwealth, the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the President *333and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard), and the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company,…