Cohen v. City of Lynn

How courts have described this case

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• stating “conveyance of land for parks in perpetuity establishes a public charitable trust”
• in analyzing definition of “park” or “park purposes,” concluding that general definition is “expansive,” and includes “a place to which the public at large may resort to for recreation, air, and light”
• “We have found no authority, nor is any cited to us, to the effect that the receipt of substantial consideration prevents a grantor from conveying property to a municipality in such manner as to establish a public charitable trust.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).