PENNSYLVANIA CO., ETC. v. BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Eq. No. 2073.

83 A.2d 881 (1951)

PENNSYLVANIA CO. FOR BANKING AND TRUSTS v. BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE LONDON HOSPITAL et al.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

October 29, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheffield & Harvey, William R. Harvey and J. Russell Haire, all of Newport, for complainant.

Hinckley, Allen, Salisbury & Parsons, Frank L. Hinckley, Matthew W. Goring, Robert J. Nordstrom, all of Providence, for respondents Board of Governors of the London Hospital, Governors of the London Hospital, Board of Governors of The Royal Free Hospital, and The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital.

Davies, Hardy, Schenck & Soons, Dermod Ives, John H. Barber, Charles L. Herterich, Jr., all of New York City, for respondent Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in U. S.

Coombs & Wilson, of Brooklyn, N. Y., for respondent Board of Home Missions of Presbyterian Church in U. S.

William E. Powers, Atty. Gen., Robert A. Coogan, Asst. Atty. Gen., for State.


BAKER, Justice.

This bill in equity was brought by a trustee under a will primarily for instructions relative to a distribution of a portion of the trust. When the cause was ready for hearing for the entry of final decree in the superior court it was certified to this court for determination in accordance with general laws 1938, chapter 545, § 7.

The following facts among others appear from the bill of complaint, the respondents' answers thereto, a stipulation...

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