Carter v. Papineau
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort by Effie A. Carter, the wife of Frank Albert Carter of the village of Cochituate in the town of Way-land, against Arthur Bradford Papineau, the rector of St. George’s Church at Maynard, who conducted the services of the Episcopal Mission in Wayland, and William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts (of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America). Writs dated respectively May 12 and July 3, 1913. The declaration in the first case contained four counts, of…
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Two actions of tort by Effie A. Carter, the wife of Frank Albert Carter of the village of Cochituate in the town of Way-land, against Arthur Bradford Papineau, the rector of St. George’s Church at Maynard, who conducted the services of the Episcopal Mission in Wayland, and William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts (of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America). Writs dated respectively May 12 and July 3, 1913. The declaration in the first case contained four counts, of which the plaintiff waived the first and third. The second and fourth counts related respectively to occurrences on the days…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The evidence would have amply warranted the jury in finding that the defendant Papineau as priest in charge declined to administer to the plaintiff the rite of “Holy Communion” or to permit her to partake thereof, and that by his authority and order she had been refused admission on the Lord’s day to the building in which religious services were being held. It is contended that for these acts he and the defendant Lawrence, bishop of the diocese, are responsible in damages, and that the verdicts in their favor were ordered wrongly.
The record shows that the Protestant Episcopal Church of…
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