In re the Distribution of the Estate of Ticknor
Michigan Supreme Court
Case made after judgment from Washtenaw Circuit. This case was an appeal from a decree of distribution of the Probate Court for the County of Washtenaw. The Prohate Court held that the Tract Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States could not take a legacy bequeathed to it, for want of legal capacity — it being unincorporated.
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Case made after judgment from Washtenaw Circuit. This case was an appeal from a decree of distribution of the Probate Court for the County of Washtenaw. The Prohate Court held that the Tract Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States could not take a legacy bequeathed to it, for want of legal capacity — it being unincorporated. The Tract Society appealed from tbis decree to the Circuit Court, which affirmed the decree of the Probate Court as to the Tract Society, and also held, revising so far the. decree of the Probate Court, that the bequests to the Domestic and Foreign…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell J.:
Benajah Ticknor made his will, providing for the investment of certain moneys, in which his widow was to have a life interest. Upon her death, that fund was bequeathed, in equal shares, to the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, the American Bible Society, the Seaman’s Friend Society, the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Deceased Clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Tract Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in' the United States. The first foru- Societies…
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