Trustees of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church v. Harris
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to determine the validity of a mortgage of real estate claimed to constitute a cloud upon the plaintiffs’ title, and for other equitable relief, brought to the Superior Court in New London County and tried to the court, Thayer, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiffs for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Suit to determine the validity of a mortgage of real estate claimed to constitute a cloud upon the plaintiffs’ title, and for other equitable relief, brought to the Superior Court in New London County and tried to the court, Thayer, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiffs for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The plaintiffs are trustees and members of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, a corporation in Norwich organized and existing under the statute laws of this State relating to trustees of Methodist Episcopal churches. They claim…
1Opinion of the CourtAhdbews, C. J.
The piece of land which is the subject of litigation in this case was deeded on the 17th day of September, 1891, by Isaac C. Swan to certain persons named and described in the deed as the “ trustees of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church, of Norwich, Connecticut, . . . and their successors in office.” The plaintiffs claim that the title to that piece of land should be vested in them, because they are in the law the successors in office of the grantees named in the deed. They say that the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church in Norwich is the lawful successor of the Central Methodist…
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