Trustees of the Storrs Agricultural School v. Whitney
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit for the removal of a cloud, from a title; brought to thé Superior Court in Tolland County. Facts found and case reserved for advice. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
The Connecticut Soldiers’ Orphan Home was incorporated in 1864 for the charitable purpose of providing *343a home, support and education for orphans or destitute children of soldiers and other citizens of this state. In 1866 Edwin Whitney conveyed to the corporators thereof and their successors, two pieces of land in the town of Mansfield, to be by them used for the purposes specified in their act of incorporation, with this proviso, viz.:—“Always provided, that if at any time said grantees or their successors in office shall abandon the use. of said premises for the purpose intended and…
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