Attorney-General ex rel. Abbot v. Town of Dublin
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
This was an Information, filed by the Attorney-General, at the relation of the Trinitarian Congregational Society in Dublin, and the Reverend Edward E. Abbot, and a Bill in Equity, prosecuted by the said Trinitarian Congregational Society and the said Abbot against The Town of Dublin, The First Congregational Society in Dublin, the Reverend Levi W. Leonard, and the Reverend "William E. Bridge.
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This was an Information, filed by the Attorney-General, at the relation of the Trinitarian Congregational Society in Dublin, and the Reverend Edward E. Abbot, and a Bill in Equity, prosecuted by the said Trinitarian Congregational Society and the said Abbot against The Town of Dublin, The First Congregational Society in Dublin, the Reverend Levi W. Leonard, and the Reverend "William E. Bridge. The bill was filed December, 1855, and amended by making tbe Attorney-General a party, October 15, 1856. The bill and information stated the following facts: The town of Dublin, on the 6th of August,…
1Opinion of the CourtPerley, C. J.
The income of the fund in question was paid by the trustees to the Rev. Levi W. Leonard while he preached in the First Congregational Society, and has been paid to the Rev. William F. Bridge since he was settled as colleague with Mr. Leonard. This, it is alleged in the bill and information, is a misapplication of the fund, and a violation of the trust, because Mr. Leonard and Mr. Bridge are not, and have not been, ministers of the Congregational persuasion, within the meaning of those terms as used in the will of Mr. Sprague. The ground is taken that, though the First Congregational Church…
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