The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-24
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gives them specific authority after they
have specified the objects for which the
surplus income should be spent The
court is asked to appoint master to take
testimony in Brattleboro and elsewhere
This petition was drawn up as the re-
suit of situation which developed at a
hearing before Judge Pierce of the SUI
preme court Aug. % ON petition of the
trustees for instructions as to the expen-
diture of the trust income. 1t was taken
to Boston a few days ago by Attorney
G. NJ. Miller, who assisted Attorneys +.
E. Barber and O. B. Hughes representing
the seamstresses, and Attorney A. p. Car
penter, representing the town of Brattle-
boro, and was filed from the office of
Bates, Nay, Abbott & Dane, who are
| associated in this case with the local at
torneys. A petition similar to this but
differing in certain particulars as necessi-
| tated by conditions in Rhnebeck, is to be
| fled soon by attorneys for the Rhinebeck
benefciaries, and hearing will be held
early in November.
The document includes the will of Thorn
| as Thompson, the decree of court thereon.
a statement that the annual income avail
able for distribution in Brattleboro two
| thirds of the whole income) is about $40.
| 900, and says that since May, 1908. the
| trustees and their agents have neglected
| and refused to administer the trust in ac-
| cordance with the courts decree.
| 1t is asserted that the trustees, although
| having in their hands ample funds. have
not provided proper relief and support
or the benefciaries, but have doled out
entirely inadequate sums; that the trus-
ees have laid down arbitrary rules in the
matter of rendering relief, have frequently
refused to render relief to cases entitled
thereto because the persons did not fall
within the rules, and that many persons
IN need and entitled to relief have failed
to ask for it, being informed that the
| Jules would bar their relief
Humiliation of applicants bv the trus-
tee Bradley and his agents is alleged and
rs stated that they have demanded of
beneficiaries promissory notes for the re-
payment of money advanced and in some
,ases have demanded a transfer of any
real or personal property the benefciaries
might subsequently acquire. 1t is declared
hat 1t was not the intention of the tesla
| tor that applicants for relief should be
subjected to mdignities or that the relief
| should be in the nature Of loans.
The cutting down of the annual allow
| ance of the hospital from SIS 900 to Sl2 600
s set forth, which it is claimed impairs
| the efficiency of the institution and for
which no good reason ever has been Of
cred by Mr.. Bradley or his agents Pres
ent conditions, it is claimed, require that
the hospital have approximately So, 900
| year
A decree of the court on March 10, 1901.
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| Tor which the trustees might expend mon
| ey under the will 'the care and support
# aged and disabled persons of said class
IS iii a home for that purpose either by
| itself or in connection with a hospital
or otherwise" The petition says that no
auch home ever has been established and
that persons entitled to aid under this
part of the decree in some cases have
been put to needless indignities: that in
most. if not all cases Nr Bradley or his
agents have sought to impress upon APP
plicants that they are disgracing them
selves by so applying. that they are max
ng themselves objects of charity and are
assuming the position of paupers, all OF
which is contrary to the spirit and pur-
pose of the testator and the courts de
crees.
The increased cost of all necessities is
mentioned and it is stated that all the
income of the trust estate available fol
Use in Rrattleboro is needed here, where
Is much less than the full amount has
been so spent by the trustees.
1t is averred that there are women Of
he classes named in the will of Thomas
Thompson living in this town and en-
titled to aid from the trust who are re
eiving only a small part of what they
need, leaving the balance of their relie
md support to be furnished by the town
thereby forcing such persons into the
lass of the pauper poor of Brattleboro
The alleged acknowledgement and unwise
administration of the trust and the al
legged disregard of the terms of the vii
md the DEGREES of court are chiefly il
not wholly, chargeable to the trustee
Richards NJ. Bradley, the petition states
From this point the text of the petition
is follows:
petitioners further aver. that since tn,
creation of said trust hostility has ariser
between said trustees and said beneficial
RES attributable in great part to tn,
'ault of the said trustee Bradley; tina
mutual i'll feeling has been the result o
lis administration of said trust fund; tina
he views of the said trustee Bradley arr
1t variance with the objects of said trust
f that said trustee Bradley and said bene
{ iciaries cannot work together in har
mony; that the existence of said condi
lions must naturally pervert his feeling
and judgment and that his continuance il
, ,ffice as trustee under the viii of tn,
!, said Thomas Thompson and the DEGREES
# this honorable court will be unfortun
tie and detrimental to the proper execu
ton and administration of the trust al
contemplated by the donor and under thu
DEGREES of this honorable court
Wherefore the petitioners pray:
THAT upon due hearing thereon, de
cree may issue from this honorable court
directing the removal of the trustee Rich
ards M. Bradley and the appointment o.
., suitable person as succeeding trustee
thereto