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Because the University is a charitable corporation, private parties cannot bring suit against it under Massachusetts law. In 1955, then Attorney General George Fingold refused to use his special powers to bring suit. However, after his death, Attorney General Edward J. McCormack, Jr. acquiesced and allowed the Information to be entered in his name...
...After Fingold refused to file an Information against the University, the Arboretum ease went before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts on charges that Fingold had acted on faulty legal principles in refusing to press a suit. The "friends" asked the Supreme Court to force Fingold to reconsider his decision...
...removal was carried out in 1954 after the former Attorney General, the late George Fingold, found no violation of trust in the matter. It involved recataloguing and storing the material in the building constructed to house the botanical collections belonging to the University. When the transfer took place, the Arboretum was left with books and specimens necessary, in the Corporation's view, to the effective operation of the Arboretum as a research facility. Materials now located in Cambridge are clearly marked "Arnold Arboretum," and are maintained from funds provided for that purpose...
Something of a surprise winner, Trodden was the third candidate to obtain a quota. Trodden is a former assistant attorney general under the late George Fingold, and the last candidate to be eliminated in the 1957 election...
Massachusetts law, which forbids suing a trustee except through the attorney general, had made it impossible for the Friends to bring suit against the Corporation until now because George Fingold, attorney general until 1958, had refused to press the case. However, Edward J. McCormack, Fingold's successor, agreed last year to bring the case to court in his name...