Legal Opinion
Board of Trustees of Whitman College v. Berryman
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Washington
Decided June 4, 1907No. 250PublishedCited by 2 opinions
In Equity. On demurrer to bill.
1Opinion of the Court
WHITSON, District Judge.
Elkanah Walker, Cushing Eells, and others, on the 20th day of December, 1859, secured a charter from the Legislature of Washington Territory for the establishment of an educational institution to be devoted to the instruction of persons of both sexes in science and literature. The persons therein named and their successors were declared to be a body politic and corporate, in law, by the name and style of the “President and Trustees of Whitman Seminary.” It was provided that the corporation should have perpetual succession, with power to acquire, possess, and hold…
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