Bonacum v. Harrington

Pound. C.

Thomas Bonacum, as bishop of the Roman Catholic Church for the diocese of Lincoln, brought this suit against Lewis J. Harrington to obtain an injunction restraining the latter from exercising the powers or faculties of parish priest in the parish of Orleans in said diocese, in contravention of the action of plaintiff, as such bishop and as the governing authority of the church in said diocese, withdrawing his faculties and depriving him of his authority as such parish priest, and from acting or assuming to act in that capacity, exercising the functions of which he had been deprived,…