City of Quincy v. Attorney General

This is a bill for instructions, brought by the city of Quincy as trustee under the will of Ebenezer Woodward of property devised to it upon certain charitable trusts. The Trustees of Dartmouth College, to whom the property is limited over in certain events, are made defendants, and, although no instructions are asked on that point, they set up a claim to the property on the ground that the plaintiff has broken the conditions imposed by the will. Perhaps, under the decisions in this State, instructions could be asked as to whether there had been a forfeiture. Fairbanks v. Belknap, 135 Mass.…