Haines v. Carpenter

91 U.S. 254

23 L.Ed. 345

HAINES ET AL.

v.

CARPENTER ET AL.

October Term, 1875

APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana.

Celia A. Groves of Madison Parish, Louisiana, by her will, dated the 27th of January, 1872, among other things bequeathed to the Baptist church in the city of Vicksburg, the plantation on which she lived, except one hundred and fifty acres, which were designated; and expressed a desire that the church should hold it, and not sell it, and that the proceeds should be employed to educate young men for the ministry. She appointed her…