Baltimore Humane Impartial Society & Aged Women's & Aged Men's Homes v. Pierce

Briscoe, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court. '

The appellant is . a body corporate, duly incorporated for a charitable purpose, having for its object' the care of aged women and men, who are without the means to provide for themselves a comfortable home.

It appears from the record that on the sixth day of April, 1893, the appellee, Elisha Pierce, a resident of Baltimore City and about seventy years of age, was admitted as an inmate of this institution, under the following admission contract, which according to the rules o’f the institution had to be signed by, and also in behalf of the…