City of Newport v. Sisson

This is a bill in equity praying for the administration of a charitable trust by the application of the cy pres doctrine. The respondents are the Attorney General of the State, and an heir of an original donor of the land, one Hiram Murray, and the children of some of the persons who contributed to the purchase of the land. The cause was heard on bill, answer and oral proof and is here on the appeal of the complainant from a final decree dismissing the bill.

The facts are undisputed. In 1863 Margaret Parish built at her own expense a small one-room wooden schoolhouse on a lot of land owned by…