State v. Trustees of Vincennes University

It is not usual for this Court to deliver written opinions in deciding upon petitions for rehearing; but the magnitude of this cause, and the character of the *88petition filed in it, seem to require a departure from the customary course.

It is insisted, in the petition,, that the trustees of the Vincennes university were not an existing corporation at the time this suit was instituted, viz., in 1846. It is claimed that they had ceased to be such through negligence, in failing to attend and to hold semi-annual meetings.

In answer, we say, first, the record does not establish the fact of such…