Delaware County Institute of Science v. Delaware County
This text of 94 Pa. 163 (Delaware County Institute of Science v. Delaware County) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of Pennsylvania primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The judgment; of the Supreme Court was entered,
The plaintiff in error, so far from being a purely public charity, is not a public charity at all. It is a private corporation for the benefit of its members, as much so as any other beneficial or literary society. It might permit others than members to use the library, but nobody could call it to account for refusing such permission. It is clearly not within the principles settled by the court in Donohugh’s Appeal, 5 Norris 306.
Judgment affirmed.
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