St. Paul's Episcopal Church v. Fields
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the amount of a promissory note delivered in escrow, the terms and conditions of which were alleged to have been complied with, brought to the Superior Court in Windham County and tried to the jury before Roraback, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs, and appeal by the defendants.
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Action to recover the amount of a promissory note delivered in escrow, the terms and conditions of which were alleged to have been complied with, brought to the Superior Court in Windham County and tried to the jury before Roraback, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs, and appeal by the defendants. One of the plaintiffs, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, is a voluntary association of communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, and a mission station of that church in Willimantic, and the other plaintiff, Richard D. Hatch, is the missionary in charge of that…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
Upon the pleadings the plaintiffs were bound to prove that they raised $10,000 within a year from the date of the Boardman note, for the purpose of building a church. They claimed that $6,000 of this sum was raised within the time, by the appropriation, by the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Connecticut, of a legacy from a Mrs. Terry. The entire evidence in the case is certified as a part of the record. From this it appears that Hatch learned that Mrs. Lucre'tia Terry had left a bequest of $6,000 to the Standing Committee, and he wrote to the bishop asking him to present the claims of…
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