Morton v. Savannah Hospital

The Court of Appeals desires instruction from the Supreme Court upon the following questions, the answers to which are seriated.

1. “Is the corporation originally chartered by the legislature as the 'Savannah Poor-house and Hospital’ (Acts of 1835, pp. 130, 132), and invested with 'all the powers, rights, privileges, and liabilities incident to a corporation,’ authorized and empowered, under the provisions of either the said original act of incorporation or of the ámendment thereto (Acts of 1872, p. 256), to conduct onlyv all institution primarily or altogether eleesmosynary in character, for…