Trustees v. Jennings
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Aldrich, J., Greenville, December, 1892. Action by trustees of Wadsworthville Poor School against L. I. Jennings. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
Under the will of Thomas Wadsworth, who died in 1791, while a citizen of Charleston, in this State, certain lands within the limits of this commonwealth were devised to trustees to maintain and support a free school for poor children residing within the limits of Major Dunlap’s Battalion of the Saluda Regiment within Laurens County. The General Assembly of this State, appreciating the spirit of this devisor, and the better to protect these lands from the rapacity and cupidity of those persons who would likely seek an advantage of the…
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