Bolster v. Attorney General

The trustees under the will of Henry O. Peabody petitioned for instructions as to their duty with respect to a fund of about $750,000 in their hands, being the residue of the estate, which was given by the will “to found and endow an Institution to be called the ‘Henry O. Peabody School for Girls/ for the purpose of furnishing instruction to girls by teaching the various branches of art, science and industry best calculated to enable the scholars to acquire an independent livelihood.” The will *388provided that the school be located upon a farm owned by the testator, if owned by him at his death.…