Edgar Collegiate Institute v. People ex rel. Hardy

The Edgar Collegiate Institute was incorporated under an act of the legislature to that effect, approved March 8, 1867, “for the purpose of maintaining-an institution of learning in or adjacent to the town of Paris.” (Private Laws of 1867.) The fourth section of the act is as follows: “All the property, both real and personal, belonging to the trustees of Edgar Academy is hereby vested in the corporation created by this .act, and said corporation is hereby authorized to establish, maintain and perpetuate an institution Of learning for both male and female, in which all the branches of a…