Cammeyer v. Corporation of United German Lutheran Churches
New York Court of Chancery
The bill in this cause was filed on the 18th day of April, 1840, by Augustus F. Cammeyer, Henry Otten, John F. Reinicke, John F. Thall, Henry Storms, Burnet Otten, Henry Budelman, Carsten Platt, Andrew Prosch, Harman Schilling, Henry Dusterkotter, Peter Aims, Benjamin Ogden, Andrew Surre, Adolph F. Ockershausen, Philip W. Engs, John F. Gardner, Roger Williams, William Johnson, and Christian Smack, against The Corporation of the United German Lutheran Churches in the City of…
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The bill in this cause was filed on the 18th day of April, 1840, by Augustus F. Cammeyer, Henry Otten, John F. Reinicke, John F. Thall, Henry Storms, Burnet Otten, Henry Budelman, Carsten Platt, Andrew Prosch, Harman Schilling, Henry Dusterkotter, Peter Aims, Benjamin Ogden, Andrew Surre, Adolph F. Ockershausen, Philip W. Engs, John F. Gardner, Roger Williams, William Johnson, and Christian Smack, against The Corporation of the United German Lutheran Churches in the City of New York, and George Tiemann; the latter being made a defendant as the president of the board of trustees of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The Assistant Vice-Chancellor.
In order to understand the cause of the controversy between these parties, and the grounds of the claim made by the complainants, it is necessary to trace the history of the defendants’ church, from its origin in this city.
There were a few Lutherans among the first emigrants from Holland to this province, and there is no doubt but that they were driven from Holland by the persecution of the Arminians, *203and those holding kindred tenets, which had been denounced by the Synod of Dort in 1618,1619.
They were relieved from, persecution here, but were not per,mitted to…
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- Abeel & Abeel v. RadcliffNew York Supreme Court · 1816
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