Page v. Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church

Leaming, V. C.

It is well settled in this state that the act for the incorporation of trustees of religious societies is not an act for the incorporation of the-religious societies, but is an act for the incorporation of the trustees of such societies to the end that the corporations thus formed may hold the temporalities of such religious societies *116in trust. The corporation thus becomes a trustee of the church property and the religious society the cestui que trust. The trust under which such an incorporated board of trustees holds is held to be essentially a simple trust in which the…