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FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH v. BROWNELL

332 Mass. 143 (1955)

123 N.E.2d 603

FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH vs. CLIFFORD A. BROWNELL & others (and four companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

January 3, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. St. Clair, for Massachusetts Congregational Conference and Missionary Society.

Harrison F. Lyman, Jr., for Clifford A. Brownell and another.

Barton I. Goldberg, for Martha A. Feilhauer.

Milton A. Westgate, for B.M.C. Durfee Trust Company, trustee.

Israel Brayton, for Home for Aged People in Fall River, submitted a brief.

Present: QUA, C.J., LUMMUS, WILKINS, SPALDING, & WILLIAMS, JJ.

WILLIAMS, J.

These are five suits in equity to obtain orders for the distribution or for the application cy pres of certain funds held in trust by the respective petitioners for charitable purposes. The suits, which for convenience are referred to by the letters A, B, C, D, and E, were heard in the Probate Court. The petitioner in A, B, C, and D is First Christian Church in Fall River, a religious society organized in 1829. The petitioner in E is First Christian Union...

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