Legal Opinion
Sears v. Attorney General
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 3, 1907PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
This case was heard before a single justice and reserved for the full court upon the question “Whether the widow and orphans’ fund of Trinity Church in the city of *552Boston is a fund held upon such a charitable trust that it may, on a proper case being made out, be directed by the court to be applied ey pres.” The facts proved and the scheme proposed at the hearing are not reported, and we have no occasion to consider anything but the question presented by the reservation.
This fund was originally raised by a subscription of persons connected with Trinity Church in 1804, and was stated to be “…
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