French v. Old South Society in Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract to recover twenty-five dollars collected by the defendants from William J. Niles for rent of a pew in the Old South Meeting-house in Boston, for the months of December 1868, and January, February and March 1869. Writ dated June 8, 1869. The facts admitted in the pleadings showed that the “ Proprietors of pews in the Old South Meeting-house in Boston” were incorporated by the St. of 1845, c. 229,* “with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties,…
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Contract to recover twenty-five dollars collected by the defendants from William J. Niles for rent of a pew in the Old South Meeting-house in Boston, for the months of December 1868, and January, February and March 1869. Writ dated June 8, 1869. The facts admitted in the pleadings showed that the “ Proprietors of pews in the Old South Meeting-house in Boston” were incorporated by the St. of 1845, c. 229,* “with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions ” contained in the Rev. Sts. oo. 20, 44, “ so far as the same are applicable to…
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, C. J.
This case comes before us without evidence, it being agreed that the facts stated in the pleadings are true, and only the questions of law arising upon the pleadings are submitted to the court.
By St. 1845, e. 229, the “ Proprietors of pews in the Old South Meeting-house” were incorporated by the name of the “ Old South Church,” their name being changed in 1859 to the “ Old South Society in Boston.” They had then been organized for more than one hundred and fifty years according to the usages and laws existing in the early history of the city of Boston, and consisted of the holders of pews…
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