Franke v. Mann
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for La Eay-ette county: Geo. CleheNtsoN, Circuit Judge. Equitable action to prevent members of a religious corporation from perverting tbe use of its property.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for La Eay-ette county: Geo. CleheNtsoN, Circuit Judge. Equitable action to prevent members of a religious corporation from perverting tbe use of its property. Tbe issues made by the complaint were decided by tbe trial court substantially as follows: (1) On May 13, 1888, for some years theretofore, and ever since, tbe German Evangelical Synod of North America, has existed in Wisconsin and other states as a religious corporation separate and distinct from ail others, and has been and is made up of people whose beliefs on religious and church…
1Opinion of the CourtMaeshall, J.
Thirty-six exceptions were filed to the findings of fact, but counsel for appellants made no specific assignment of error in regard to such findings in accordance with the rules and settled practice of the court. We find in counsels’ brief a statement of their claim in a general way, and a statement that the court erred in so far as the findings and conclusions of law are inconsistent with such view, and on that we are referred to the pages of the printed case where the findings and conclusions of law may be found, and in like manner to the exceptions thereto, particularly to twelve of such…
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