Attorney Gen. v. Barbour
Decision Date | 22 January 1877 |
Parties | Attorney General v. John N. Barbour |
Court | United States State Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Supreme Court |
Argued January 11, 1877 [Syllabus Material] [Syllabus Material]
Middlesex. Information in equity, filed August 10, 1876, by the attorney general, at the relation of Isaac Adams, alleging that Seth Adams, of Newton, in the county of Middlesex, brother of the relator, died on December 7, 1873, leaving a will, which was admitted to probate on January 13, 1874, a copy of which was annexed to the information, and the residuary clause of which was as follows:
The information also alleged that the persons named as trustees in the will had done nothing for the erection of the public charity contemplated by the will, and had permitted two sessions of the Legislature to pass without applying for the charter which by the will it was made their duty to apply for as soon as practicable; that the relator Adams had resigned his office of executor and...
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