Smith v. Bowers
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Monroe F. Smith, from a .judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 22d day of August,. 1899, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Onondaga Special Term dismissing the complaint. This appeal was transferred from the fourth department to the third department.
1Opinion of the Court
Merwin, J.:
The controversy in this case is over the use- to be made of certain church property, the title of which is in the corporation defendant “The Wesleyan Methodist Church of Syracuse,” a religious corpo*253ration incorporated in August, 1845, under the act of 1813. (Revised Laws of 1813, chap. 60.) The religious association that preceded the ■corporation was formed in May, 1842. That association in June, 1843, co-operated with a large number of other similar associations having ■similar religious views, forming a convention at which a religious ■denomination was organized, called the…
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- Madison Avenue Baptist Church v. Baptist Church in Oliver StreetNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
- The People v. . TuthillNew York Court of Appeals · 1865
- Wyatt v. BensonNew York Supreme Court · 1857
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