Proprietors of White School House v. Post
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill in equity to enforce a trust. The facts "were specially found by tlie superior court. In 17 -32 Gad Talcott and twelve other persons, then residing in the society of Gilead in the town of Hebron in this state, entered into a written agreement to build a school house together, upon a plan described in the agreement, “ on the most convenient ground to the south-east corner of the Wells farm in the highway in Gilead Society,” and to pay for the same their several…
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Bill in equity to enforce a trust. The facts "were specially found by tlie superior court. In 17 -32 Gad Talcott and twelve other persons, then residing in the society of Gilead in the town of Hebron in this state, entered into a written agreement to build a school house together, upon a plan described in the agreement, “ on the most convenient ground to the south-east corner of the Wells farm in the highway in Gilead Society,” and to pay for the same their several proportions according to the amount of their respective lists made in August, 1791. The school house was built in the summer of…
1Opinion of the CourtDutton, J.
In 1792 thirteen residents of the society of Gilead in the town of Hebron, built a school house called “ the white school house,” of which of course they were the proprietors. In 1811 John Curtiss, a resident of the society, by his will, executed on the 10th of May, 1810, made the following bequest: — “ I give for the purpose of supporting a common winter school in the white school house standing near Wells’ land in Gilead, one hundred pounds lawful money, the interest of which shall be annually applied to the support of such school in said house or some other house on or near the same place.…
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