Bristor v. . Burr
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered upon an order made December 13, 1887, which affirmed a judgment in favor of the plaintiff entered upon a verdict. The nature of the action and the facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered upon an order made December 13, 1887, which affirmed a judgment in favor of the plaintiff entered upon a verdict. The nature of the action and the facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. Had the Ladies’ Guild of of the M. E. Church attempted to use the money collected by them for any other purpose than payment of the parsonage rent, they would have rendered themselves liable to the trustees. (Rector v. Crawford, 43 N. Y. 476; Baptist Church, etc., v. Pryor, 23 Hun, 271.) The…
1Opinion of the CourtBradley, J.
The action was brought to recover for an alleged assault upon and forcible eviction of the plaintiff from a house in which he was residing, and for the alleged conversion of certain of his personal property then in the house at Spring Valley in the county of Bockland. The plaintiff was a member of the Newark Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by which he was stationed as a preacher in March, 1885, at Spring Valley, and continued to preach in the church at that place until the 15th of January, 1886, when he was suspended from all ministerial services and church privileges. This was…
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