Trustees of Andover Theological Seminary v. Visitors of the Theological Institution

These proceedings grow out of a plan for closer affiliation between Andover Theological Seminary and Harvard Divinity School, adopted in 1922. Although differing in form and details, the three proceedings in the main are directed to the same end, namely, the ascertainment of the true legal force and effect of a determination by the visitors of the Andover Seminary that that plan for closer affiliation between the two institutions (1) is inconsistent with the “Associate Foundation Statutes” of the Andover Seminary and (2) thereby Andover Seminary will not be conducted in accordance with the…