Vincent v. Chapman
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Chancery. The bill in this cause was filed by the appellee, against Catharine Vincent adm’x of William Vincent, James J. Weems adm’r of John Weems, Mary Chapman adm’x of Henry H1 Chapman, John J. Stoddert and Horatio Clagett, in Charles County Court, and subsequently removed to the Court of Chancery.
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Appeal from Chancery. The bill in this cause was filed by the appellee, against Catharine Vincent adm’x of William Vincent, James J. Weems adm’r of John Weems, Mary Chapman adm’x of Henry H1 Chapman, John J. Stoddert and Horatio Clagett, in Charles County Court, and subsequently removed to the Court of Chancery. The object of the bill was- to recover from the defendants, certain sums of money advanced by Samuel Chapman, in and about the erection and construction of a church in Pori Tobacco Parish, in Charles■ county. The parties set up various defences, and a great variety of proofs was…
1Opinion of the CourtArcher, J.
The proceedings of the vestry of July 1815, did not con*282stitute a contract, involving the personal liability of the members of the vestry. It was a corporate act, pledging corporate funds, to any one who would on the faith of those funds, .proceed to build'the church.
The contracts with the workmen, and those furnishing materials, made by committees of the vestry, of whom the complainant’s intestate was one, as also the subsequent proceedings of the 'vestry, confirm the correctness of this view of their resolutions.
The nominal amount of the- funds within their control, and which it was supposed…
2Cited by1 opinion
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