Hart v. Hill

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Rees

Affirming.

This appeal presents for construction an instrument dated March 22, 1871, which was executed by the Trustees of the Presbyterian Church and College of Burkesville, Kentucky, upon receipt of $1,500 from the Trustees of the Church Erection Fund of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, a body incorporated by an act of the New York Legislature passed March 31, 1855. Section 1 of the Act of incorporation reads in part: “1. Samuel T. Spear, Asa D. Smith, Edwin F. Hatfield, James W. McLane, Walter S.…