TERRETT & OTHERS v. Taylor & Others
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district of Columbia, sitting in the county of Alexandria. Taylor and others, “ members of the vestry of the “ Protestant Episcopal church, commonly called theEpis- « copal church of Alexandria in the parish of Fairfax, “ in the county of Alexandria and district of Columbia, “oh behalf of themselves-and others, members of the “said church, and of the congregation belonging, to the “ said church,” filed their hill in chancery against Terrett…
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ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district of Columbia, sitting in the county of Alexandria. Taylor and others, “ members of the vestry of the “ Protestant Episcopal church, commonly called theEpis- « copal church of Alexandria in the parish of Fairfax, “ in the county of Alexandria and district of Columbia, “oh behalf of themselves-and others, members of the “said church, and of the congregation belonging, to the “ said church,” filed their hill in chancery against Terrett and others, who were overseers of the poop for the county of Fairfax, in the state of Virginia, and against George D…
1Opinion of the Court
Story, J,
delivered the opinion of the Court as follows:
The Defendants not having answered to the hill in the' Court below, it has been taken pro confesso, and the cause is therefore to be decided upon thertitle and equity apparent on the face of the bill.
If the Plaintiffs have shown a sufficient title to the trust property in the present bill, we have no difficulty in holding that they are entitled to the equitable relief prayed for. It will be but the case of the eestuis. que trust enforcing againát their trustees the rights ,of own-, ership under circumstances in which the objects o'f the…
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