Legal Opinion
The Woodward School for Girls, Inc. v. City of Quincy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 23, 2014No. SJC 11390PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.
This dispute arises from a trust established in 1822 by former President John Adams and supplemented by a bequest of his grandson in 1886. The city 3 of Quincy (Quincy) served as trustee of the Adams Temple and School Fund and the Charles Francis Adams Fund (collectively, Funds) through two boards. 4 The Woodward School for Girls, Inc. (Woodward), the income beneficiary of the Funds since 1953, filed suit against Quincy initially seeking an accounting and thereafter asserting that Quincy committed a breach of its fiduciary duties to keep adequate records, invest the trust’s assets properly,…
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