In re John C. Mercer Home for Disabled Clergymen
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 203, by S. Wilson Fisher, a purchaser of real estate, from decree of O. C. Montgomery Co., June T., 1893, No. 7, authorizing applicant to sell certain real estate at private sale. Petition of charitable corporation for leave to sell real estate at private sale, under the Price act.
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Appeal, No. 203, by S. Wilson Fisher, a purchaser of real estate, from decree of O. C. Montgomery Co., June T., 1893, No. 7, authorizing applicant to sell certain real estate at private sale. Petition of charitable corporation for leave to sell real estate at private sale, under the Price act. The petition set out the following devise by Ann Jane Mercer in her last will and testament: “ Whereas I am seized and possessed of a certain estate and property called ‘ The Mount,’ situate in the county of Montgomery in the state of Pennsylvania, which I desire to devote to pious and charitable uses —…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Williams,
The corporation known as the John C. Mercer Home for Disabled Clergymen, was organized under the directions of the last will and testament of Ann Jane Mercer, deceased. Its purpose is to provide for a limited number of disabled clergymen of the Presbyterian church the comforts of a home; and so to save them from the discomforts and degradation of the almshouse, or the destitution and suffering that must come to helpless old age when dependent upon unorganized and voluntary charity. The corporation was founded and endowed under the will of Mrs. Mercer, and is…
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