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TRUSTEES OF WORCESTER STATE HOSPITAL v. THE GOVERNOR

395 Mass. 377 (1985)

480 N.E.2d 291

TRUSTEES OF WORCESTER STATE HOSPITAL vs. THE GOVERNOR, & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

July 11, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Scannell, Jr. (Lucia C. Scannell with him) for the plaintiffs.

David P. Grossi for Worcester Business Development Corporation.

H. Reed Witherby, Assistant Attorney General, for the Governor & others.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

O'CONNOR, J.

Worcester State Hospital is a State facility under the control of the Department of Mental Health (D.M.H.). G.L.c. 19, § 14A (1984 ed.). The trustees serve in the D.M.H., G.L.c. 19, § 14 (1984 ed.), and they are "a corporation for the purpose of taking and holding ..., in trust for the commonwealth, any grant or devise of land ... made for the use of [the hospital]." G.L.c. 19, § 14B (1984 ed.).

By St. 1980, c. 579, § 10, the...

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