Minnesota Baptist Convention v. Pillsbury Academy

Dell, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in the District Court of Hennepin County in a declaratory judgment action.

Minnesota Central University, under the patronage of the Minnesota Baptist Association, was incorporated by the Minnesota, territorial legislative assembly in 1854. L. 1854, c. 36. The act provided that the university should be located on the west side of the Mississippi Biver between the mouth of the Bum Biver and Lake Pepin. In 1857 the university located at Hastings where it operated until, because of economic conditions, it lost its real estate under…