31 Md. 336 | Md. | 1869
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This appeal is taken from a decree of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, sitting in equity, by which the injunction was dissolved and the bill of complaint was dismissed. The injunction had been granted to enjoin the further execution of a judgment at law, confessed in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, in favor of the plaintiff therein, the present appellee, by James II. Griffin, Thomas T. Munroe and William B. Townshend, ■who are described in the judgment as “survivors and successors of John II. Munroe, Presley N. Athey, Joseph R. Huntt and Jeremiah Townshend, Trustees of McKendree Church, of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States of America.”
The execution had been levied upon the church and the lot upon which it stood.
The record presents several questions, which we do not consider it necessary to decide, and among those is' the question, who are the rightful and lawful trustees of the
The provisions and conditions of the de.ed of trust make the law, by which the conduct of the trustees, in the management and disposition of the trust property must, be regulated and controlled. Trustees acccepting the trust upon the terms and conditions of the deed creating the trust, have no power to alter, change, or dispense with ..those terms and conditions. Dolan & Foy vs. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, 4 Gill, 405, 406. The deed of trust by which this property was conveyed to the trustees therein named, provides “ that if the said trustees, or any of them or their successors, have advanced, or shall advance any sum or sums of money, or are, or shall be responsible for any sum or sums of money on account of said premises, and they, the said trustees or their successors, be obliged to pay the said sum or sums of money, they, or a majority of them, shall be authorized to raise the said sum or sums of money by mortgage on the said premises, or by selling the said premises, after notice given by the pastor or preacher, having the oversight of the congregation attending divine service on said premises,
The decree of the Court below must, therefore, be reversed and the cause remanded, so that a decree may be passed in accordance with this opinion.
Decree reversed and cause remanded.