Duessels. v. Prochs.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to restrain the defendants from interfering with or obstructing the holding of religious meetings by the plaintiffs in a certain church edifice in Terryville, and for other relief, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, Rorabaclc, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiffs.
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Suit to restrain the defendants from interfering with or obstructing the holding of religious meetings by the plaintiffs in a certain church edifice in Terryville, and for other relief, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, Rorabaclc, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiffs. An appeal was originally taken to this court at the May Term, 1905. When reached for argument, the court suggested that unless additional parties were joined, no judgment could be pronounced that would conclude all those legally interested…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
Otto Duessel, alleging himself to be pastor of a Lutheran church in Plymouth, and sundry members of that church and of the congregation by which it is supported, have brought this action against the congregation, the other members of the church and congregation, and the trustees who hold the title to the land occupied by the church building.
The finding of the trial court establishes these facts: The congregation, which is named the “ German Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul’s Congregation, Unaltered Augsburg Confession,” was organized in 1892. German Evangelical Lutheran churches are…
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