Goesele v. Bimeler
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the .United States for the District of Ohio, sitting ás a Court of Equity. The bill was filed by John G. Goesele and six other persons, _ as heirs at law of Johannes Goesele, deceased, against Bimeler and twenty-four other persons, members of the Society of Separatists. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the court. The Circuit Court dismissed the bill, and the complainants appealed to this court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice McLEAÑ
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case comes before the court on an appeal from the Circuit Court of the District of Ohio.
In their bill the complainants represent that they are the heirs at law of Johannes Goesele, who died at Zoar, in the county of Tuscarawas,' Ohio, in the year 1827; that the said Johannes, in his lifetime, associated himself with the defendants, Bimeler and others, and formed a society of Separatists, and in the year 1817. they purchased of one Godfrey Haga, of Philadelphia, a tract of land situated in said county, containing 5,500 acres; that…
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