Ward Seminary for Young Ladies v. Mayor of Nashville
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM DAVIDSON Appeal from Chancery Court, Davidson'County.— John Allison, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Green
The complainant is a private corporation organized under the laws of Tennessee for the purpose of teaching any useful profession, trade, business, or art, and of giving instruction in any branch of learning, practical or theoretical. It was chartered under the provisions of chapter 58, sec. 3, of the Acts of 1881, Shannon’s Code, secs. 219I9,-220CX It is a corporation organized for profit, and not an eleemosynary corporation, or corporation organized for general welfare.
Ward Seminary has for many years been conducted as a boarding school for girls, and has become quite a famous institution.
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