Speidel v. Henrici
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR ■ THE WESTERN DISTRICT OE PENNSYLVANIA. This was a bill in equity, filed June 7, 1882, by Elias Speidel, a citizen of Ohio, against Jacob Henrici and Jonathan Lenz, trustees of-the Harmony Society of Reaver County in the State, of Pennsylvania, and citizens of Pennsylvania, and containing the following allegations: That the plaintiff’s parents lived in the kingdom of "Wurtemburg in Germany up to the year 1801, “ engaged…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR ■ THE WESTERN DISTRICT OE PENNSYLVANIA. This was a bill in equity, filed June 7, 1882, by Elias Speidel, a citizen of Ohio, against Jacob Henrici and Jonathan Lenz, trustees of-the Harmony Society of Reaver County in the State, of Pennsylvania, and citizens of Pennsylvania, and containing the following allegations: That the plaintiff’s parents lived in the kingdom of "Wurtemburg in Germany up to the year 1801, “ engaged in farming and well to do, and without any education or knowledge of. the world or of business, but devout Christians,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
Tins bill was filed against the trustees of the Harmony Society, an unincorporated association of persons living together as a community, by a former member of the society, claiming a share in property in the hands of the trustees.
The bill is sought to be maintained on the ground that the trust was not a charity, in the legal sense, and the members of the society were equitable tenants in common-of the property held in trust. The learned counsel for the appellants differ in their views of the trust; the one insisting that it was unlawful because founded in fraud and against public policy, and…
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