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CITY OF PROVIDENCE v. POWERS

Eq. No. 2286.

120 A.2d 811 (1956)

CITY OF PROVIDENCE v. William E. POWERS, Atty. Gen. et al.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

February 28, 1956 (as of January 17, 1956).

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. McCabe, City Solicitor; James J. Corrigan, Ass't City Solicitor, for complainant.

William E. Powers, Atty. Gen., Albert J. Hoban, Adm'r and Joseph A. Bevilacqua, Acting Adm'r of Charitable Trusts, for State.

Everett D. Higgins, Tillinghast, Collins & Tanner, Harold E. Staples, Edwin H. Hastings; Eldridge H. Henning, Jr.; Swan, Keeney & Smith, Francis B. Keeney, Jr., Frank H. Swan, Jr.; Charles H. Drummey, for various respondents.

FLYNN, Chief Justice.

This is a bill in equity, under general laws 1938, chapter 487, § 1, seeking to have the superior court authorize the city of Providence as trustee to sell certain property which had been devised to it as a charitable trust under the will of Ebenezer Knight Dexter, deceased, and thereupon to apply the proceeds in accordance with the doctrine of cy pres. Originally the attorney general of...

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