Sharp v. Bonham
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
In Equity. Suit by C. R. Sharp and others against E. W. Bonham and others. On final hearing. This bill was brought in the United States Circuit Court for this district by members of a religious society in Nashville, Tennessee, known as Grace' Church, citizens of States other than Tennessee, against the pastors and elders of another religious society calling itself Grace Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and also against three individuals described as trustees, who held the…
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In Equity. Suit by C. R. Sharp and others against E. W. Bonham and others. On final hearing. This bill was brought in the United States Circuit Court for this district by members of a religious society in Nashville, Tennessee, known as Grace' Church, citizens of States other than Tennessee, against the pastors and elders of another religious society calling itself Grace Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and also against three individuals described as trustees, who held the legal title to certain land and a house of worship in the City of Nashville, all the defendants being citizens of…
1Opinion of the Court
SANFORD, District Judge.
This case was heard upon the pleadings, stipulations and depositions before the new equity rules went into effect.
After careful consideration I have reached the following conclusions :
[1] The bill should not be dismissed for want of requisite diversity of citizenship on which to found the jurisdiction of the court. I held originally that as the essential object of this suit was to obtain a decree that the defendants.Rhea, Gaut and Hardison, trustees of the Grace Church property, held title in trust for the exclusive use and benefit of the congregation of that Church,…
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- Duvall v. Synod of Kansas of Presbyterian Church in United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1915