In re Matthews
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 117, Oct. T., 1912, by Grant Street Reformed Presbyterian Cburcb and Robert G. Woodside, et al., President and Members of the Board of Trustees, from decree of C. P. Allegheny Co., Third T., 1911, No. 56, setting aside election of church trustees In re Petition of James Matthews, William Moore, John A. Brownlee, Jr., W. J. Sands and Thomas Thompson.' Petition to set aside election of trustees of a church.
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Appeal, No. 117, Oct. T., 1912, by Grant Street Reformed Presbyterian Cburcb and Robert G. Woodside, et al., President and Members of the Board of Trustees, from decree of C. P. Allegheny Co., Third T., 1911, No. 56, setting aside election of church trustees In re Petition of James Matthews, William Moore, John A. Brownlee, Jr., W. J. Sands and Thomas Thompson.' Petition to set aside election of trustees of a church. Before Davis, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Error assigned was the decree of the court. — The court had no jurisdiction in this proceeding to declare the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
This was a proceeding begun by petition filed in the Court of Common Pleas by certain members of the congregation of the Grant Street Reformed Presbyterian Church of the City of Pittsburgh, praying that the *421congregational election at which .hese appellants were declared elected as trustees of the body should be set aside because of certain alleged irregularities in the election, and a new election ordered. An answer was filed denying the averments in the petition as to irregularity, and thereupon the case proceeded to a hearing which resulted in a decree…
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