Legal Opinion
Powers v. Home for Aged Women
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided June 18, 1937PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMoss, J.
This is the same suit in equity, for the construction of the fourth paragraph of the will of Laura C. Powers and for the determination of the proper disposal of a one-quarter share of a trust fund of $10,000, provided for in that paragraph, as was described and dealt with in our opinion in Powers v. Home for Aged Women, 55 R. 1. 187, 179 A. 610. In that opinion we held that the question of the existence of a charitable trust governing this share was sufficiently involved and sufficiently doubtful to make it at least advisable that the attorney general of Rhode Island be made a party…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- State ex rel. Dudgeon v. LevitanWisconsin Supreme Court · 1923
- Bosworth v. StockbridgeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Codman v. BrighamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Brown v. ConditNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1905
- Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1929
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- Estate of HendersonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1941
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- Board of Ed. of City of Louisville v. City of LouisvilleCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1941
- School District No. 1 v. Teachers' Retirement Fund Ass'nOregon Supreme Court · 1939
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