McFADDIN, Justice.
The question here presented is the power of a court of equity to sanction a deviation from one portion of a charitable trust instrument in order to accomplish the larger purpose of the charitable trust. Stated another way, the question is the power of a court of equity to permit a sale of the trust property, even though the trust instrument states that the property cannot be sold.
In 1889 Joseph Merrill executed a trust indenture creating...
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