Trustees of Princeton University v. Wilson

Pitney, Chancellor.

The ease, shortly stated, is as follows: The complainants, the trustees of Princeton University, have received from the executors of Josephine A. Thomson Swann, deceased, late of the borough of Princeton, a fund of approximately $325,000, which, by the thirteenth paragraph of her will, was given to the complainants, in trust, for the erection, construction and maintenance “upon the grounds of the said university” of a building to be known as the “John R. Thomson Graduate College, of Princeton University.” The pertinent language of the will will be quoted below. It provides,…