State ex rel. Watson v. Farris
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Sixth District Court. I. No property right or power can be derived from a violation of the laws of the church by any party. (Inne, 271, 376, 378, 380, 385, 399; The Scottish Seceders, 1 Dows, 16; Muller v. Gable, 2 Denio, 492; The People v. Steele, 2 Barb. 397; Kniskern v. The Lutheran Church of St. John & St. Peter et al., 1 Sandf. Ch. 439.) II.
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Error to Sixth District Court. I. No property right or power can be derived from a violation of the laws of the church by any party. (Inne, 271, 376, 378, 380, 385, 399; The Scottish Seceders, 1 Dows, 16; Muller v. Gable, 2 Denio, 492; The People v. Steele, 2 Barb. 397; Kniskern v. The Lutheran Church of St. John & St. Peter et al., 1 Sandf. Ch. 439.) II. The decisions of ecclesiastical bodies are final and conclusive on all subjects within their jurisdiction; but they may be controlled and examined by courts of law. (Smith v. Nelson, ■ 18 Verm. 511; 11 N. Y. 243 ; 4 Whart. 531; Parish v.…
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
The circuit attorney of the nineteenth judicial circuit exhibited to the Circuit Court, sitting in the county of St. Charles, an information in the nature of a quo warranto, at the relation of Samuel S. Watson, against the defendants in this proceeding. The controversy grows out of a conflict in which different persons claim the right to act as trustees of Lindenwood Female College, an institution of learning situated in St. Charles county. The college was incorporated by an act of the Legislature of this State, approved February 24, 1853, and the third section of the charter provides that…
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