Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society v. Bowdoin Square Baptist Society
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on December 19, 1911, by the Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society, trustee under the will of Asa Wilbur, as the holder of sixty-five out of one hundred and seventy-five pews in the church of the Bowdoin Square Baptist Society, to enjoin the recording of a deed dated June 23, 1911, from that society to the Tabernacle Baptist Church and for a reconveyance, and also for a determination of the rights of the plaintiff in the…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on December 19, 1911, by the Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society, trustee under the will of Asa Wilbur, as the holder of sixty-five out of one hundred and seventy-five pews in the church of the Bowdoin Square Baptist Society, to enjoin the recording of a deed dated June 23, 1911, from that society to the Tabernacle Baptist Church and for a reconveyance, and also for a determination of the rights of the plaintiff in the property of the Bowdoin Square Baptist Society under the will of Asa Wilbur. The case came on to be heard before…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The Bowdoin Square Baptist Society was incorporated as a religious society in 1841 under general law. It acquired title to land and a church building. The deed to it was absolute in form without statement of any trust. The estate appears to have been paid for by donations and the sale of pews, and in part by a mortgage upon it. In 1840 the Bowdoin Square Baptist Church was organized as an ecclesiastical body, and continued to occupy the church owned by the society until 1885. Soon after this time it passed out of existence. In 1887 the Tabernacle Baptist Church was organized, and since then…
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