Centennial & Memorial Ass'n of Valley Forge
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 314, Jan. T., 1911, by Henry J. Stager and Henry J. Stager, Trustee, from order of C. P. Montgomery Co., June T., 1910, No. 32, dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report In the Matter of the Audit of the Account of the Centennial & Memorial Association of Valley Forge. Exceptions to report of W. F. Dannehower, Esq., auditor. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Error assigned was order dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moschzisker,
The Centennial and Memorial Association of Valley Forge having been formally dissolved, the question is raised as to the proper distribution of its assets; and this depends upon whether or not the association was a public charity. The fund consists of moneys in the treasury of the corporation paid into Court after its dissolution.. The association was a corporation of the first class created by a decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery county, July 5, 1878, under the .act of April 29, 1874, P..L. 73, the charter purpose .being, “To purchase, improve…
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