Trustees of the Zion Church v. Hilken
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from a pro forma decree of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, dismissing the bill of complaint filed for the specific performance of a contract to lend money upon a mortgage of certain land.
1Opinion of the CourtPage, J.
This case involves the title of the appellants to certain property situated in Baltimore City. It appears that in 1793 Englehard Yeiser, one of the trustees of the Lutheran Congregation in Baltimore-Town, in consideration of 775 pounds current money conveyed the lot in question to John Shriver and others, trustees of the said Lutheran ° Congregation, in trust for the use and uses of the High German Lutheran inhabitants in Baltimore-Town forever, who do or shall hold to the said confession of faith, &c. Upon a part of the lot *171a parsonage was erected and so occupied up to 1870; the residue was…
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