Willis v. Corlies
New York Court of Chancery
Motion for a receiver of real estate, upon the matter of the bill before answer, but which was met by affidavits on the part of the defendants. The subject matter of controversy in this cause was the real estate belonging to the society of friends in the city of New-York; consisting of two meetinghouses, a schoolhouse and other buildings and a cemetery or burying ground.
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Motion for a receiver of real estate, upon the matter of the bill before answer, but which was met by affidavits on the part of the defendants. The subject matter of controversy in this cause was the real estate belonging to the society of friends in the city of New-York; consisting of two meetinghouses, a schoolhouse and other buildings and a cemetery or burying ground. The difficulty had grown out of the dissention which occurred in the society between the parties, usually denominated, by way of distinction, “Orthodox ” and “Hicksite.” It had led to a separation in several of their meetings…
1Opinion of the Court
The Vice Chancellor:
This motion has given rise to an elaborate discussion of questions which the cause is calculated to present when it shall be brought to a hearing upon the merits ; but upon which I do not deem it necessary to express any opinion in this stage of the suit: for this motion can very properly be disposed of without going into a particular examination of the grounds of the bill or the state” ments made in opposition.
It is only necessary to observe at present that the complainants state and insist that the monthly meeting of which they are members and the quarterly meeting to…
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