Attorney General v. Garrison
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Information filed November 11, 1868, by the attorney general at the relation of the treasurer of the New England branch of the American Freedmen’s Union Commission, setting forth that in 1861 Francis Jackson’s will was duly proved and allowed in the probate court for Suffolk, containing in its fourth article a bequest of $10,000 to William Lloyd Garrison, Edmund Quincy, Samuel May, Jr., Wendell Phillips, Charles K, Whipple, William I. Bowditch, Edmund Jackson, Lydia Maria…
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Information filed November 11, 1868, by the attorney general at the relation of the treasurer of the New England branch of the American Freedmen’s Union Commission, setting forth that in 1861 Francis Jackson’s will was duly proved and allowed in the probate court for Suffolk, containing in its fourth article a bequest of $10,000 to William Lloyd Garrison, Edmund Quincy, Samuel May, Jr., Wendell Phillips, Charles K, Whipple, William I. Bowditch, Edmund Jackson, Lydia Maria Child and Maria W. Chapman, in trust “ for them to use and spend at their discretion, without any responsibility to any…
1Opinion of the Court
Chapman, C. .1.
The object of the information is, to enforce the execution of a charitable trust in conformity with a decree of the court. The defendants have received the trust fund, and it has been in their hands since January 1, 1868. They were directed by the decree “ to pay it over, at such times and in such sums as they in their discretion might think fit, to the treasurer of the New England branch of the American Freedmen’s Union Commission, to be by them expended in promoting the education, support and interests generally of the freedmen (late slaves) in the states of the Union in…
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