Amory v. Trustees of Amherst College
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on October 1, 1912, against the corporation, the Trustees of Amherst College (hereinafter called Amherst College), David Sears and the Attorney General of the Commonwealth by the trustees under a declaration of trust, known as the David Sears Real Estate Trust, who claimed an undivided one half interest in two parcels of real estate and alleged that they were entitled to an accounting as to rents under the circumstances…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on October 1, 1912, against the corporation, the Trustees of Amherst College (hereinafter called Amherst College), David Sears and the Attorney General of the Commonwealth by the trustees under a declaration of trust, known as the David Sears Real Estate Trust, who claimed an undivided one half interest in two parcels of real estate and alleged that they were entitled to an accounting as to rents under the circumstances hereinafter described, as successor to David Sears, by virtue of the twentieth paragraph of his will, placing the residue…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is a bill in equity brought by the plaintiffs, who allege that they are the successors in title of the trustees of the residue of the real estate under the will of David Sears, to compel conveyance to them of an undivided half interest in each of two parcels of land in the city of Boston, alleged to be held by the defendants under a trust resulting in favor of David Sears (and the plaintiffs as his successors in title), by reason of the invalidity of certain provisions in the deeds conveying to the trustees of Amherst College the two parcels of land above referred to. The bill also prays…
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