Society for Promoting Theological Education v. Attorney General

The principal question presented by this bill in equity is as to the construction of the codicil to the will of John D. Williams, who died in 1848, and by the codicil devised to the plaintiff two stores in Boston, to have and to hold the same to it, its successors and assigns forever, in trust “ to apply from time to time all the net rents and income to the maintenance and support of such indigent students in theology, while resident at Cambridge, as shall be preparing themselves for the ministry, who shall be by said corporation deemed most meritorious and worthy of assistance, in sums not…