Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert G. Dodge '93, attorney for the plaintiff, said that the petition called the proposed transfer of the Arboretum serious enough to require the Attorney General to enter the case...
Attorney General George Fingold had previously refused to act as plaintiff in the suit. Under Massachusetts law suits against a charitable trust, such as the Arnold bequest, may be brought only in the name of the Attorney General...
Fingold had refused to act as plaintiff in a suit against the Corporation prohibiting the transference of books and specimens from the Arboretum to the new Herbarium. In Massachusetts, suits against a charitable trust--into which class the Arnold bequest falls--may only be brought in the Attorney General's name...
Since Massachusetts law forbids a private citizen to bring suit against the administrators of a trust unless the state attorney general allows his name to be used as plaintiff, Dodge took his case to Attorney General George Fingold...
Fingold has refused to be plaintiff in the case, however, having decided that the Corporation acted legally in planning the move...