THE WOODWARD SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, INC. v. CITY OF QUINCY

No. SJC-11390.

469 Mass. 151 (2014)

THE WOODWARD SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, INC. v. CITY OF QUINCY, trustee, & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

July 23, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Leonard ( James S. Timmins , City Solicitor, with him) for city of Quincy.

Sarah G. Kim ( Josephine M. Deang Chin & Alison K. Eggers with her) for the plaintiff.

Present: SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, GANTS, DUFFLY, & LENK, JJ.


CORDY, J.

This dispute arises from a trust established in 1822 by former President John Adams and supplemented by a bequest of his grandson in 1886. The city3 of Quincy (Quincy) served as trustee of the Adams Temple and School Fund and the Charles Francis Adams Fund (collectively, Funds) through two boards.4 The Woodward School for Girls, Inc. (Woodward), the income beneficiary of the Funds since 1953, filed...

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