Decker v. Bishop of Charleston

Moss, Acing Chief Justice.

The Bishop of Charleston, a corporation sole, the respondent herein, was created by an Act of the General Assembly of South Carolina, approved December 13, 1880, 17 Stat. 321, and was authorized “to purchase, hold, possess, and enjoy in fee simple or in any lesser estate, any property, either real or personal, to be held, enjoyed, possessed, or used, for the purpose of a church, hospital, parsonage, burial ground, schoolhouse, or any or all of said purposes, or for the erection, repair, maintenance, support or keeping up of them, or any or all of them, * * It is…