Mt. Calvary Methodist Protestant Church Trustees
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 192, Oct. T., 1921, by O. S. Sanders et al., petitioners, from decree of O. P. Clarion Co., May T., 1921, No. 79, dismissing petition for appointment of trustees, in tbe matter of Mt. Calvary Methodist Protestant Church. Petition for appointment of trustees of a church under Act of June -5, 1913, P. L. 435. Before Sloan, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Petition dismissed. C. S. Sanders et al., petitioners, appealed.
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Appeal, No. 192, Oct. T., 1921, by O. S. Sanders et al., petitioners, from decree of O. P. Clarion Co., May T., 1921, No. 79, dismissing petition for appointment of trustees, in tbe matter of Mt. Calvary Methodist Protestant Church. Petition for appointment of trustees of a church under Act of June -5, 1913, P. L. 435. Before Sloan, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Petition dismissed. C. S. Sanders et al., petitioners, appealed. Error assigned, among others, was decree, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Walling,
In 1856 Jacob Eshleman and wife gave a deed to Martin Bradley and Solomon Cyphert, Jr., trustees of the Methodist Protestant Church, for a described plat of one hundred and fifty-six perches of land in Limestone Township, Clarion County, in trust for the church. About that time a log church building was erected thereon, which was later replaced by a frame building and each in its turn used as a house of worship by a local un*455incorporated religious society of that denomination, known as Mt. Calvary Methodist Protestant Church, until the frame building was destroyed…
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