Snyder v. Snover

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

On January 16th, 1838, John I. Blair conveyed about an acre of land in Knowlton township, Warren county, to six persons in trust, that they should erect thereon a church for the use of the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in that vicinity, and should forever permit the ministers of that denomination to preach therein, and in further trust that the said land should not be sold or used, or be subject to be sold or used, by the trustees or their successors, or by virtue of any other authority whatever, except for the purposes aforesaid.…