Legal Opinion
In re Board of Trustees of Huntington Free Library & Reading Room
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 6, 2004PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Lerner, J.
Pursuant to its foundation deed, petitioner Huntington Free Library and Reading Room (the Library) is a charitable trust created by Collis and Arabella Huntington in 1892 to operate a noncirculating, free public library and to provide a place “where all persons without distinction of race or creed may assemble for purposes of reading, study, education, and self-improvement, and for lectures, exhibitions, instruction and amusement” (Board of Trustees of Museum of Am. Indian, Heye Found. v Board of Trustees of Huntington Free Lib. & Reading Room, 197 AD2d 64, 67…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Sherman v. Richmond Hose Co. No. 2New York Court of Appeals · 1921
- Board of Trustees of the Museum of the American Indian v. Board of Trustees of the Huntington Free Library & Reading RoomAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994
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