Jackson v. Phillips
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity by the executor of the will of Francis Jackson, of Boston, (who died in 1861,) for instructions as to the validity and effect of the following bequests and devises: l< Article 4th.
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Bill in equity by the executor of the will of Francis Jackson, of Boston, (who died in 1861,) for instructions as to the validity and effect of the following bequests and devises: l< Article 4th. I give and bequeath to William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Edmund Quincy, Maria W. Chapman, L. Maria Child, Edmund Jackson, William I. Bowditch, Samuel May, Jr., and Charles K. Whipple, their successors and assign^ ten thousand dollars; not for their own use, but in trust, nevertheless, for them to use and expend at their discretion, without any responsibility to any one, in such sums, at such…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
This case presents for decision many important and interesting questions, which have been the subject of repeated discussion at the bar and of much deliberation and reflection by the court. The able and elaborate arguments of counsel have necessarily involved the consideration of the fundamental principles of the law of charities, and of a great number of the precedents from which they are to be derived; *550and have disclosed such diversity of opinion upon the extent and application of those principles, and the just interpretation and effect of the adjudged cases, as to require the principles in…
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