Burke v. Rector, Churchwardens & Vestrymen of Trinity Church

Although the allegations of the complaint in the main are directed to the alleged grievances of the plaintiffs, based upon the contemplated action of the defendants to close St. John’s Ohapel, which it is sought by this suit perpetually to restrain, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the plaintiffs also seek by the complaint to compel an accounting on the part of the vestry, the individual defendants, of the property of the corporation, its “ revenues and all payments therefrom for such a period as to the court shall seem proper.” It is apparent that the allegations hearing upon an…