Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls v. Law
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon, George C, Hitchcock, Judge. (1) The court erred in finding or holding that the plaintiff corporation was organized, incorporated and existed for benevolent and charitable purposes, and not for religious purposes. It is a religious corporation. Sec. 8, art. 2, Const. 1875; Sec. 3432, E. S. 1909 (Sec. 1394, E. S. 1899); Proctor v. Board of Trustees, 225 Mo. 56;' Klix v. St. Stanislaus Parish, 137 Mo.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon, George C, Hitchcock, Judge. (1) The court erred in finding or holding that the plaintiff corporation was organized, incorporated and existed for benevolent and charitable purposes, and not for religious purposes. It is a religious corporation. Sec. 8, art. 2, Const. 1875; Sec. 3432, E. S. 1909 (Sec. 1394, E. S. 1899); Proctor v. Board of Trustees, 225 Mo. 56;' Klix v. St. Stanislaus Parish, 137 Mo. App. 355; In re St. Louis Institute of Christian Science, 27 Mo. App. 633; Catholic Church v. Tobbein, 82 Mo. 423; Lilly v. Tobbein, 103 Mo. 477;…
1Opinion of the Court
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BOND, J.
Seven ont of seventeen members of a religious order in the Roman Catholic Church, residing in St. Louis, were incorporated under the statutes providing for the formation of benevolent, religious, scientific, fraternal, beneficial and educational corporations by a decree of the circuit court of that city on the nineteenth of October, 1905.
Mrs. Anna Hamilton Bailey, who died the twenty-first of September, 1910 (without any descendants), devised, among a large number of other charities, a lot of ground fifty feet wide on Randolph street to “The Order of the Little Helpers.” Plaintiff…
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