Ayres v. Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church
The Superior Court of New York City
Tttc bill in this cause was filed in the supreme court in equity, by the executors of Abraham E. Brower, late of the city of Brooklyn, deceased, against The Trustees of the Corporation of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the city of Hew York, and against the surviving devisees, heirs, and next of kin of Brower, for a construction of his last will and testament, to settle the validity of the devises and bequests thereby made, and to discharge the executors therefrom, if the…
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Tttc bill in this cause was filed in the supreme court in equity, by the executors of Abraham E. Brower, late of the city of Brooklyn, deceased, against The Trustees of the Corporation of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the city of Hew York, and against the surviving devisees, heirs, and next of kin of Brower, for a construction of his last will and testament, to settle the validity of the devises and bequests thereby made, and to discharge the executors therefrom, if the same were invalid. The testator died on the sixth day of August, 1832. By his last will and testament, dated April 18th,…
1Opinion of the CourtDuer, J.
We have lately decided in the case of Tucker v. St. Clement's Church (a), that the words “ pious uses,” in the *359revised act of 1813, relative to the incorporation of religious societies, must be restricted to such uses as are comprehended within the general objects of a religious corporation, to such as its trustees, where no special direction is given, could lawfully dedicate its property, and as the same words are found in the original act of 1784, and in the same connection, we cannot do otherwise than give to them the same interpretation. It was justly remarked by one of the counsel for…
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