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After three weeks of unexpected delay, the Arnold arboretum's $1 million breach of trust suit against the Corporation has been presented to the State Supreme Court for immediate decision...
Warren F. Farr '27, counsel for the Corporation, and Robert G. Dodge, counsel for the Arboretum, both now expect Spaulding to rule within two weeks. If Spaulding should decide against the Corporation, the University will have to return thousands of dried plant specimens and a substantial library housed in the University Herbarium to the arboretum, from which they were moved in June...
...Counsel for the Arboretum maintains in its final brief that by moving six-sevenths of the total Arnold collection to Cambridge, the University has violated the trust which stipulated that they must act "in the sole interest of the Arnold Arboretum." Furthermore, by arranging for the Arboretum director to teach undergraduate botany courses, Harvard is clearly benefiting "other interests...
Robert G. Dodge, attorney for the Arboretum, countered, however, that the University had directly violated the trust by ignoring its stipulation that all activities connected with the Arboretum be carried on in Jamaica Plain...
Supreme Court Justice John V. Spaulding gave the counsel for the Arboretum ten days to file a brief and continued the case until that time...