Winthrop v. Attorney General

By this bill in equity, brought against the Attorney General and the President and Fellows of Harvard College, the plaintiffs, as trustees under a deed of trust executed by the late George Peabody, seek the instructions of the court as to *259cheir right to carry into effect an agreement which they desire to make with the last-named defendant.

By the deed of trust the donor gives to the trustees “ the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to he by them and their successors held in trust, to found and maintain a Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology in connection with Harvard…