Boutell v. Cowdin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action of the case, brought against the defendant, as he was administrator of the goods and estate of Thomas Eaton. upon the following note, viz.: —
1Opinion of the Court
The Court
observed that three objections had been made to the verdict in this case. First, that the promise declared on was not binding, as being made without a valuable consideration, (a) Second, that the deacons of the church were not, by the statute of 1785, made a corporation for the purpose of receiving and managing a fund established for the support of a minister. Third, that in this case the plaintiffs had not shown themselves to be the deacons of a church duly organized.
On this last objection the Court gave no opinion. But they considered the two former ones as well founded, and on…
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