School District No. 3 v. Sheldon
Supreme Court of Vermont
Chancery. Windsor county, April 12, 1898; Tyler, Chancellor; pro-forma decree sustaining the defendant’s demurrer and dismissing the bill with costs. The orator appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtStart, J.
This cause was heard on the defendants’ demurrer to the orator’s bill. It is alleged in the bill that the orator was incorporated as a graded school district by No. 166 of the Acts of 1886; that Albert Whitcomb deceased at Bethel leaving a will, by which he gave the orator “thirty thousand dollars, the principal to be safely invested and the income only to be used each year for the current expenses of the school,” and which provided that if the gift was not accepted, or if its conditions should be violated, the same should be given to, and divided among the three grandchildren of his brother,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Town of Barre v. School District No. 13Supreme Court of Vermont · 1894
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