Washington University v. Rowse
Supreme Court of Missouri
Jlppeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. Plaintiff’s charter (Adj. Sess. Acts 1858, p. 290) was substantially as follows: “Be it enacted,” etc.: “1. Christopher Rhodes,” etc., “and their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of The Eliot Seminary, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be capable of taking and holding, by gift, grant, devise, or otherwise, and conveying, leasing, and otherwise disposing of,…
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Jlppeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. Plaintiff’s charter (Adj. Sess. Acts 1858, p. 290) was substantially as follows: “Be it enacted,” etc.: “1. Christopher Rhodes,” etc., “and their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of The Eliot Seminary, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be capable of taking and holding, by gift, grant, devise, or otherwise, and conveying, leasing, and otherwise disposing of, any estate, real, personal, or mixed, annuities, endowments, franchises, and other hereditaments which may conduce to the…
1Opinion of the CourtWasnbr, Judge
The question involved relates to the power of the State to assess, levy, and collect a tax on the property owned by the defendant in error. In 1853 the Legislature incorporated the Eliot Seminary, and provided that the incorporators, their associates and successors, should be constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of The Eliot Seminary, and by that name should have perpetual succession, and be capable of taking and holding, by gift, grant, devise, or otherwise, and conveying, leasing, or otherwise disposing of, any estate, real, personal, or *316mixed, annuities, endowments,…
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