Wallace v. Hughes
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 50. — ACTION BY ELIJAH HUGHES AND OTHERS AGAINST H. J. WALLACE AND OTHERS, INVOLVING THE RIGHT OF THE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH TO UNITE WITH THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Appeal from Union Circuit Court. J. W. Henson, Circuit Judge. Judgment for plaintiffs. Defendants appeal. SUMMARY.
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CASE 50. — ACTION BY ELIJAH HUGHES AND OTHERS AGAINST H. J. WALLACE AND OTHERS, INVOLVING THE RIGHT OF THE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH TO UNITE WITH THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Appeal from Union Circuit Court. J. W. Henson, Circuit Judge. Judgment for plaintiffs. Defendants appeal. SUMMARY. We confess not to be able to understand the refinement of construction which, admits that the Cumberland Presbyterian Assembly had the right to admit other ecclesiastical organizations into union with it and yet had no right to allow a union between the Cumberland…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court by
Judge Barker
Reversing.
The appellees, who were plaintiffs below, instituted this action to recover possession of a lot of land situated in Sturgis, Ky., from the appellants, who were defendants below, and who, it was alleged in the petition, were wrongfully withholding the property from- the plaintiffs. Directly the action involves the title to, and the right to possess, the real estate described in the petition. Incidently there is involved the right of the ecclesiastical organization known as the Cumberland Presbyterian Church to unite with the Presbyterian Church in…
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