Gregory's v. Trustees of Shelby College
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
APPEAL FROM SHELBY CIRCUIT COURT. cited Perchará vs. Heywood, 8 Term Rep.; 2 Black. Com., 345; Smith’s Com. on Stat. and Cons. Law,pp. 630, 659, 927-8; 1 Term Rep., 93,- note; Broom’s Com. on the Com.
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APPEAL FROM SHELBY CIRCUIT COURT. cited Perchará vs. Heywood, 8 Term Rep.; 2 Black. Com., 345; Smith’s Com. on Stat. and Cons. Law,pp. 630, 659, 927-8; 1 Term Rep., 93,- note; Broom’s Com. on the Com. Law, 516-17-18-19, side pp.; 8 Bingham, 181; 5 Cranch, 22 ; Smith’s Commentaries, pp. 713" 739-40-41-42-43-44, 913, et seq.; Addison on Contracts, 2d Ami ed., side p. 1158; Chitty on Contracts, 763; 1 H. Blackstone, 322; 8 Term Rep., 89 ; 4 Greenleaf’s Rep., 513 ; 2 Dana, 78 ; 4 Denio, 399; 3 Binney, 72-3; 10 Peters, 532 to 564 ; 2 Humphreys, 367. cited Smith’s Selected Cases, 5th Amer. cd.,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Simpson
delivered the otinion of the court:
In February, 1836, an act was passed, by the legislature, granting to certain persons therein named, and their successors, collegiate powers and privileges, under the corporate name of the “ Trustees of Shelby College.”
At the next ensuing session of the legislature an act was passed for the benefit of the Shelby college, which act is in the following language:
“ § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall and may be lawful for James Bradshaw, Samuel Tevis, John Lane, James F. Moore, and Henry Radford, to raise by…
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