Legal Opinion

Woodring v. Lesher

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided November 10, 1941No. Appeal, 236PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Stadtfeld, J.,

This case arises upon petition for authority to sell certain real estate of the United Evangelical Church of Lansford, Pa., under the provisions of the Revised Price Act of June 7, 1917, P. L. 388. Certain undisputed facts appear in the case.

In 1894 a body of persons associated themselves together in Lansford, Pa., for religious purposes, and organized as St. Paul’s United Evangelical Church of Lansford, Pa. The body, as formed, was unincorporated and so remains; it was and still is, affiliated and subject to the customs, tenets, rules, regulations and laws of the…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Nauman v. WeidmanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
  2. Yard's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1870
  3. St. Joseph's Lithuanian Roman Catholic Church'sSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1922
  4. Pennsylvania Railroad v. Pennsylvania Co. for Insurance on Lives & Granting AnnuitiesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1903

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Lehigh University v. HowerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1945
  2. Trustees of First Presbyterian Church v. Oliver Tyrone Corp., Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Alleghany County1974

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