Washington University v. Rouse
Supreme Court of the United States
In this second case the charter was to the Washington University, an institution of learning. It was granted On the 22d of February, 1853,'and by the same legislature which incorporated the Home of the Friendless on the 3d of that same February.
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In this second case the charter was to the Washington University, an institution of learning. It was granted On the 22d of February, 1853,'and by the same legislature which incorporated the Home of the Friendless on the 3d of that same February. It contained exactly the same provision about freedom of the corporation from taxation and from liability to have its charter interfered with at the discretion of the legislature, and the case came here under proceedings similar to those in the last case, and from the same court, and was argued by the sanie counsel, to wit:
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Davis
There are no material points of difference between the case just decided and this case, and the views presented in that case are applicable to this. The object of the charter *440in the oue was to promote a charity, in the other to. encourage learning. Both were public objects of advantage to the country, and which every government is desirous of promoting. Whether the endowment of a charity'is of more concern to the State than the endowment of a university for learning, is within the power of the legislature to determine. If the legislature has acted in a manner to show that it considered both…
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