Skinner v. Holmes

The defendants are trustees of Saint Paul's African M.E. Church of Willow Street in the City of Trenton, which was organized under the rules and discipline prescribed by the general conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in America. The members of the local society maintain an edifice for religious worship on Willow Street at Trenton. It is declared in the verified bill of complaint that the bishop who is empowered to appoint ordained preachers to pastoral charges within the district in which the Trenton church is situate, selected the complainant to serve as pastor of Saint…