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KING v. TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY

420 Mass. 52 (1995)

CORETTA SCOTT KING, administratrix, vs. TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 12, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rudolph F. Pierce (Leonard H. Freiman with him) for the plaintiff.

Lawrence S. Elswit (Todd L.C. Klipp with him) for the defendant.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

A jury determined that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., made a charitable pledge to Boston University (BU) of certain papers he had deposited with BU. The plaintiff, Coretta Scott King, in her capacity as administratrix of the estate of her late husband, and in her individual capacity, appeals from that judgment. The plaintiff sued BU for conversion, alleging that the estate and not BU held title to Dr. King's papers, which have been housed in BU's library...

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