Dart v. Houston
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity from Glynn Superior Court. Decision on demurrer, by Judge Cochran, at April Term, 1857. The following is the bill and exhibits filed by complain.ants in this cause, and to which defendants demurred. Georgia, Glynn County. To the Honorable the Judge of the Superior Court of the Brunswick Circuit of the State of Georgia, having jurisdiction in Equity.
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In Equity from Glynn Superior Court. Decision on demurrer, by Judge Cochran, at April Term, 1857. The following is the bill and exhibits filed by complain.ants in this cause, and to which defendants demurred. Georgia, Glynn County. To the Honorable the Judge of the Superior Court of the Brunswick Circuit of the State of Georgia, having jurisdiction in Equity. Humbly complaining, showeth unto your Honor, your Orators, James Houston, J. M. Tison, S. M. Burnett, S. M, Timmons and J. W, Moore, Trustees of Glynn County Academy, in the county of Glynn, and said State, chosen by the Grand Jury of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
McDonald, J.
delivering the opinion,
' It is necessary in the outset, to consider whether the “Trustees of the Glynn County Academy,” be a corporation of the class, which constitutes a contract between the State Government and the corporators, within the meaning of that clause of the Federal Constitution which inhibits a State from passing a law impairing the obligation of contracts.
The great and leading case which brings the grant of a charter or an act of incorporation of any sort, within the protection of the Constitution of the United States, as a contract, in the case of the…
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