Holt v. Downs
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
/- Trover, for communion plate. The court ordered a verdict for the defendants, and the plaintiffs excepted.
1Opinion of the CourtDoe, C. J.
The plate was given in 1852 to the Congregational church in Francestown, for the use of that church, without any parochial condition, limitation, or trust. By the general law, the deacons then were, and ever since have been, a corporation for the purpose of taking and holding in succession all grants and donations made to the church. Rev. St., c. 144, s. 8; Gen. St., c. 189, s. 6. The property passed from the donor to the diaconal corporation of the unincorporated church, in trust for the use of the church. And that state of the legal title and beneficial interest has continued unchanged. The…
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