Trustees of the Rush Medical College v. University of Chicago

In 1837 an act was passed incorporating Rush Medical College under the name of “Trustees of the Rush Medical College,” the object of the corporation being “to promote the general interests of medical education and to qualify young men to engage usefully and honorably in the professions of medicine and surgery.” Shortly thereafter it established a school of medicine and surgery in Chicago and up to this time has continuously conducted such a school. In 1871 substantially all its property was destroyed in the great Chicago fire. Since then it has, from donations made to it by its professors and…