The Rector v. . Crawford
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the New York Superior Court, affirming a judgment upon a verdict directed in favor of the defendant, at a trial term. The action was to recover the sum of about $600, the amount of the subscriptions of various persons, paid over to the defendant when treasurer ,of the plaintiff, under the following circumstances: The plaintiff was a religious corporation in the city of New York.
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Appeal from a judgment of the New York Superior Court, affirming a judgment upon a verdict directed in favor of the defendant, at a trial term. The action was to recover the sum of about $600, the amount of the subscriptions of various persons, paid over to the defendant when treasurer ,of the plaintiff, under the following circumstances: The plaintiff was a religious corporation in the city of New York. In 1859, a meeting of the Sunday-school teachers was called, and a scheme was then proposed by which money was to be raised by the teachers and the friends of the school, for the purpose of…
1Opinion of the CourtRapallo, J.
The right of the church to claim the fund in question from its treasurer did not depend wholly upon the question whether the fund was raised by authority of the church as a corporation or whether the persons who were instrumental in raising it and those who collected it intended that it should become the property of the church. Though the subscription may have been set on foot without authority from the church as a corporation, yet if the money was raised apparently as a church fund, and the donors, at the time of giving, supposed that they were giving to the church and intended so to do, the…
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