Cooper Hospital v. Burdsall
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On certiorari. The Cooper Hospital was incorporated under the name of the Camden Hospital by an act passed March 24th, 1875. Pamph.
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On certiorari. The Cooper Hospital was incorporated under the name of the Camden Hospital by an act passed March 24th, 1875. Pamph. Tj., p. 170. The act recites that it is proposed by the devisees of William D. Cooper, deceased, and Alexander Cooper to convey certain lands in the city of Camden to the incorporators as trustees, for the purpose of erecting thereon a building or buildings to be used as a free hospital, and to appropriate moneys for the maintenance and support of the same, pursuant to the wishes and directions of the said William D. Cooper, deceased; and, whereas, it is…
1Opinion of the Court
*89The opinion of the court was delivered by
Depue, J.
The property of this corporation was derived by gift for purely charitable purposes, and its affairs are conducted gratuitously and exclusively for benevolent objects. The corporation is a.charitable institution in its management, object, aims and in the purposes for which its property was donated. The corporation took title and holds its property strictly within the powers conferred upon it by the legislature in its act of incorporation.
It is not necessary to express an opinion on the subject as to whether the prosecutor has an irrepealable…
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