Killian v. Ebbinghaus
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE SUPEEME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was a suit in equity commenced by defendant in error as plaintiff below, against persons in possession of a tract of land in Washington and claiming title, to have a trust declared in the plaintiff below as to said land, and the legal beneficiaries under the trust ascertained. The defendants below denied the trust and set up adverse title.
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APPEAL FROM THE SUPEEME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was a suit in equity commenced by defendant in error as plaintiff below, against persons in possession of a tract of land in Washington and claiming title, to have a trust declared in the plaintiff below as to said land, and the legal beneficiaries under the trust ascertained. The defendants below denied the trust and set up adverse title. The decree below was in favor of the plaintiff there, from which tho defendants below appealed. . '
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woods
The bill in this case was filed by John W. Ebbinghaus, the appellee, as trustee for the German Calvinist Society arid their legal representatives. His appointment as trustee was brought about in the following manner: On July 16th, 1877, August Sievers, Edward Kolb and Ludwig Ereund, as trustees of thé First German Reformed Church of Washington, D. C., filed their petition in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in which they represented that on June 28th, 1793, one D. Reintzel held, as trustee, in trust for the “ German Calvinist Society,” lot 9 in square 80 of the City of…
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