# Arkansas Baptist State Convention v. Board of Trustees

> Supreme Court of Arkansas · October 29, 1945 · 209 Ark. 236

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9825844

## Case

- **Full name:** Arkansas Baptist State Convention v. Board of Trustees, Baptist State Hospital.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Arkansas
- **Decided:** October 29, 1945
- **Citations:** 209 Ark. 236; 189 S.W.2d 913; 1945 Ark. LEXIS 541
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by McF
- **Judges:** Robins, McF
- **Cited by:** 3 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

McF addin, J., concurring. 'Stripped of all extraneous matters, the question here posed is:
“Do the trustees of a public charitable trust have the power to use, in their discretion, a part of the surplus, arising from operations of the trust, to discharge moral obligations originally contractual?”
I think the trustees have such power. I concur to emphasize that the holding in the case at bar is limited to an affirmative answer to that question.

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