Parker v. Harper

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

We have a controversy between two groups over the control and ns.e of church property. The adjudication of such cases is often a matter of delicacy, for it deals with dictates of conscience and force of conviction. It pertains to that which has led men throughout the ages into bitter strife, in former years to the dungeon and stake. In later years partisan strife within the churches themselves, often over matters which are inconsequential from the ordinary, temporal viewpoint, has given solicitude to all who have the advancement of…