Samuel Blatchford

Cornell University v. Fiske — Opinion of the Court

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Samuel Blatchford,  Cornell University v. Fiske — Opinion of the Court

“ Cornell, and his connection with this transaction, is appropriate. A man acquiring wealth by his own exertions, the dream of his later years was a university bearing his name, and so munificently endowed as to become, like Yale and Harvard, a center of learning; and his purchase of the scrip, and his transaction with the state, must be interpreted in the line of this thought. It was the glory of a great university which he hoped to realize,-one which would link his name with its glory. The means were subordinate; the glory and strength of Cornell University was the purpose. ”
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Samuel Blatchford,  Cornell University v. Fiske — Opinion of the Court

“ If the state can claim all the proceeds of the lands entered by its scrip in the state of Wisconsin, after deducting the costs of taxes and expenses and the price of its scrip, does it not claim and get everything it would if the land had been taken up in the name of the state? Is there any stronger or clearer way of saying that a man is entitled to all there is of value in any property than to say he has a right to all the money it will bring after paying taxes and expenses? ”
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Samuel Blatchford,  Cornell University v. Fiske — Opinion of the Court

“ If the state or the United States were to commence some proceeding, based on the counsel's argument, to reclaim possession of the property, there is nothing in the present attitude of the university which would necessarily estop or in any way conclude it from denying that any such trust exists, or that any case had been made for taking the possession of the property out of its hands. ”
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