Pennsylvania College Cases
Supreme Court of the United States
Error in three different suits to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, there and here, argued and adjudged together; the case being thus: On the 15th of January, 1802, the legislature of Pennsylvania incorporated a college in the western part of Pennsylvania known as Jefferson College. The title of the act was, “An act for the establishment of a college at Canons-burg, in the county of Washington, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.”
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Error in three different suits to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, there and here, argued and adjudged together; the case being thus: On the 15th of January, 1802, the legislature of Pennsylvania incorporated a college in the western part of Pennsylvania known as Jefferson College. The title of the act was, “An act for the establishment of a college at Canons-burg, in the county of Washington, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.” The preamble set forth that “ the establishment of a college at Canonsburg,” &c., “for the instruction of youth in the learned languages, in the arts and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Jefferson College was incorporated on the fifteenth of January, 1802, by the name of the Trustees of Jefferson College in Canonsburg in the county of Washington, for the education of youth in the learned languages and the arts, sciences, and useful literature. By the charter, it was declared that the trustees should be a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession, in deed and in law, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, and that the constitution of the college “shall not be altered or alterable by any ordinance or law of the said trustees, nor in any other manner than by an act…
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