Smith v. Swormstedt
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the' District of Ohio, which dismissed the bill. The bill was originally filed in the names of Henry B. Bascom, a citizen of Lexington, in the State of Kentucky; Alexander L. P. Green, a citizen of Nashville, in the State .of Tennessee ; Charles B. Parsons, a citizen of Louisville, in the State of Kentucky ; John Kelly, a citizen of Wilson county, in the State of Tennessee; James W. Allen, a citizen of…
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the' District of Ohio, which dismissed the bill. The bill was originally filed in the names of Henry B. Bascom, a citizen of Lexington, in the State of Kentucky; Alexander L. P. Green, a citizen of Nashville, in the State .of Tennessee ; Charles B. Parsons, a citizen of Louisville, in the State of Kentucky ; John Kelly, a citizen of Wilson county, in the State of Tennessee; James W. Allen, a citizen of Limestone county, in the State of Alabama; and John Tevis, a citizen of Shelby county, in the State of Kentucky — Against…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio.
The bill is filed by the complainants, for themselves, and in behalf of the travelling and worn out preachers in connection with the society of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in the United States, against the defendants, to recover their share of a fund called the Book Concern, at the city of Cincinnati, consisting of houses, machinery, printing-presses, book-bindery, books, &c., claimed to be of the value of some two hundred thousand dollars.
The bill charges that, at and before the year…
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