Canadian Religious Ass'n v. Parmenter
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity by a religious society organized under Pub. Sts. c. 38, § 24, having a house of worship called St. Anne’s Church in the town of North Brookfield, and three persons alleged to be the trustees of that society, against three defendants, to restrain them from acting as trustees of the society and from closing the church to the usual religious services held therein or in any way interfering with those services or exercising control over the property of the…
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Bill in equity by a religious society organized under Pub. Sts. c. 38, § 24, having a house of worship called St. Anne’s Church in the town of North Brookfield, and three persons alleged to be the trustees of that society, against three defendants, to restrain them from acting as trustees of the society and from closing the church to the usual religious services held therein or in any way interfering with those services or exercising control over the property of the corporation, filed November 27, 1900. In the Superior Court, Grctslcitt, J. reserved the case, upon the bill and answer and a…
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The circumstances out of which this suit has arisen are these. A number of French people living in Forth Brookfield where a Roman Catholic church in regular standing was already established, having formed a voluntary religious society for the purpose of building a house of worship and holding religious services therein, afterwards became incorporated under the provisions of Pub. Sts. c. 38, § 24, by the name of the Canadian Religious Association. The object of the corporation as stated in the document called its constitution, and which is in effect its code of by-laws, was “ to build a church…
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