Gass's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from tbe Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county: In Equity: Of September Term 1872. This was a bill filed December 5th 1870, by Joseph Gass and Charles Haas, deacons; Joseph Gass and Philip Benn, elders; and George Keefor, trustee, of the German Beformed Church and Congregation of Lower Augusta, against Joseph Emerick, trustee ; Bev.
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Appeal from tbe Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county: In Equity: Of September Term 1872. This was a bill filed December 5th 1870, by Joseph Gass and Charles Haas, deacons; Joseph Gass and Philip Benn, elders; and George Keefor, trustee, of the German Beformed Church and Congregation of Lower Augusta, against Joseph Emerick, trustee ; Bev. L. G. Eggers, pastor; and John Sterner, superintendent of Sabbath School; Abraham Sterner and Alexander Zartman, deacons; and Daniel Zartman and Jacob Beck, elders, of the Evangelical Lutheran Church and Congregation of Lower Augusta. The object of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, March 27th 1873, by
Agnew, J.
This bill on behalf of a German Reformed con-
gregation, was to enjoin an Evangelical Lutheran congregation *45from holding Sunday schools in the church building. These congregations built a church for common use, and on the 8th of April 1848, adopted a “ canon law,” as they called it, for the government of its use by the two bodies. By the first article of this canon, the church was to be and remain a German Reformed and Evangelical Lutheran church, under the name of' “ Emanuel’s Church.” The third and fourth articles provide…
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