First Baptist Church of Sharon v. Harper
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed February 2, 1903, by the First Baptist Church of Sharon, a corporation duly established by law, alleging that the plaintiff acquired by deed dated January 15,1903, from the Sharon Baptist Church, a voluntary religious organization, through George O. Nason and Winfred C. Holbrook, trustees of the church, a certain parcel of land in Sharon, with the buildings thereon, the property being used for church purposes ; that the Sharon Baptist Church at some…
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Bill in equity, filed February 2, 1903, by the First Baptist Church of Sharon, a corporation duly established by law, alleging that the plaintiff acquired by deed dated January 15,1903, from the Sharon Baptist Church, a voluntary religious organization, through George O. Nason and Winfred C. Holbrook, trustees of the church, a certain parcel of land in Sharon, with the buildings thereon, the property being used for church purposes ; that the Sharon Baptist Church at some time previous to the year 1833 purchased of Jeremiah Gould, then of Sharon, the parcel of land described, paying therefor…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The more important of the eleven exceptions taken by the defendant, Harper, to the master’s report, refer to the acquisition of title by the plaintiff’s grantor to the land described in the bill, and to the vesting of that title in the plaintiff. That Elijah Hewins, the great-grandfather of the defendant, under whom she claims, held at his death the record title to the property then in the physical possession of a voluntary religious organization known as The Sharon Baptist Church is undisputed. The facts, however, set forth in the report make it plain that after purchasing the land in 1832,…
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