BAPTIST ASSOCIATION v. HART'S EXECUTORS


17 U.S. 1 (____)

4 Wheat. 1

TRUSTEES OF THE PHILADELPHIA BAPTIST ASSOCIATION et al. v. HART'S EXECUTORS.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Attorney-General, for the plaintiffs.

Leigh, contrà.


MARSHALL, Ch. J., delivered the opinion of the court.

It was obviously the intention of the testator, that the Association should take in its character as an association; and should, in that character, perform the trust created by the will. The members composing it must be perpetually changing; but however they might change, it is "The Baptist Association that, *for ordinary, meets at Philadelphia annually," which is to take...

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