Borgess Hospital v. Union Industrial Trust & Savings Bank

Plaintiff Borgess Hospital, devoted to eleemosynary purposes, was organized as a nonprofit corporation under the laws of this State. It is owned; managed and its work carried on by the Sisters of St. Joseph, a religious community of the Catholic Church. The corporation originally maintained hospitals at Kalamazoo and Monroe, Michigan. In 1920 it extended its activities to Flint, Michigan, where it acquired an old residence and adapted it to hospital uses. The facilities thus afforded proved inadequate, however, and plaintiff secured the assistance of a citizens’ committee and professional…