Legal Opinion
New Jersey Orthopædic Hospital v. Wright
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided February 28, 1921PublishedCited by 9 opinions
On appeal from the Essex County Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the Court
*463The opinion of the court was delivered by
PARKER, J.
This is an action upon a subscription to a charity. The trial judge ordered a nonsuit upon the ground that the promise, concededly made, had no consideration to support it, during the lifetime of the subscriber, and, consequently, lapsed by her death. It was urged also as a ground of nonsuit that there had been no acceptance of the subscription, but the court held, and rightly, as we view it, that the jury were entitled to find that the power of the “campaign committee” to solicit and obtain subscriptions reasonably implied the power to…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Twenty-Third Street Baptist Church v. CornellNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Gardner v. DenisonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- Eaton v. LibbeyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
- Diffenderfer v. ScottIndiana Court of Appeals · 1892
3Cited by9 opinions
- Schumm v. BergCalifornia Supreme Court · 1951
- Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Bryn Mawr Trust Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1936
- More Game Birds in America, Inc. v. BoettgerSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1940
- American University v. ToddSuperior Court of Delaware · 1938
- Long v. BD. OF CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS, CTY. OF HUDSONNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1951
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