Legal Opinion
Ann Wheeler v. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 10, 1979PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
The complaint in this case was brought by parishioners of St. Mary’s of the Nativity, a Roman Catholic church in Scituate, seeking to impose a trust on certain land conveyed to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston. The defendants filed a motion to dismiss the complaint under Mass. R. Civ. P. 12(b), 365 Mass. 754 (1974). They also filed an affidavit of the Most Reverend Thomas V. Daily, D.D., who is an auxiliary bishop, chancellor, and vicar general of the Archdiocese of Boston. No counter affidavits were filed by the plaintiffs. A District Court judge, sitting by statutory authority in the…
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