In re Franklin Street Church
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 80, Oct. T., 1915, by A. M. Custer, from decree of.C. P. Cambria Co., ordering sale of real estate in the Matter of the Petition of the Franklin Street Methodist Episcopal Church of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Petition for leave to sell real estate held in trust. Before O’Connor, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. The court entered a decree authorizing the sale. A. M. Custer appealed. Error assigned was the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Frazer,
The Franklin Street Methodist Episcopal Church of Johnstown, Pa., acquired title in fee to two lots of ground, located in that city, by deed of Joseph Haynes and wife, dated the 11th day of April, 1853, and recorded in the recorder’s office of Cambria County, in Record Book, Yol. XXXII, page 661, which provided that the property should be held “in trust for the use and benefit of the Methodist Episcopal Church aforesaid, for the uses and purposes following, viz: That they, the said trustees, erect and build, or cause to be erected and built, on the second of the…
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