Soohan v. City of Philadelphia
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal in Equity from tbe Court of JSRsi Prius. This was a bill in equity by James Soohan, a minor and orphan, by his mother and next friend, against the City of Philadelphia and the Directors of the', Girard College for Orphans, for an injunction to restrain the defendants from admitting into the Girard College for Orphans, certain other persons, in preference to the complainant, who claimed a prior right under the will of the founder.
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Appeal in Equity from tbe Court of JSRsi Prius. This was a bill in equity by James Soohan, a minor and orphan, by his mother and next friend, against the City of Philadelphia and the Directors of the', Girard College for Orphans, for an injunction to restrain the defendants from admitting into the Girard College for Orphans, certain other persons, in preference to the complainant, who claimed a prior right under the will of the founder. The bill set forth that Stephen Girard, by his will, dated the 16th February 1830, gave and bequeathed unto the Mayor, Aider-men and Citizens of Philadelphia,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Read, J.
William Penn contemplated, before leaving England for America, laying out a certain quantity of land or ground plat, for a large town or city, in the most convenient place upon the river for health and navigation. In his celebrated letter to the committee of the Free Society of Traders of the Province, residing in London, written in 1683, he describes his city in the following language: “ Philadelphia, the expectation of those that are concerned in this province, is at last laid out, to the great content of those here, that are anyways…
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