Legal Opinion

N.J. Baptist, C. v. Fidelity-Phila. Trust Co.

New Jersey Court of Chancery

Decided May 19, 1941No. Docket 129/665Published

1Opinion of the Court

Complainants' bill seeks a decree against the defendant, the First Baptist Church of Atlantic City, New Jersey, hereinafter referred to as the church, declaring it to be extinct and order its property transferred to the complainant New Jersey Baptist Convention, hereinafter called Convention.

Complainant also seeks a decree against the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company, executor, c., hereinafter called executor, directing it to pay over to complainant a certain bequest under the will of one Mary A. Barker, wherein she gave to the church her residuary estate, for the purpose of the erection…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Marsh v. MurphySupreme Court of New Jersey · 1941

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