Skinner v. Grace Church

This is an action of assumpsit, brought by the plaintiff in the Macomb circuit court, to recover a balance of $465 claimed to be due for his services as rector of Grace Church at Mt. Clemens. The case was tried in the court below by Judge Stevens without a jury, and a judgment rendered in favor of the defendant.

Special findings were made and filed by the judge, from which it appears that for several years prior to 1867 and up to the year 1871 there was a congregation in Mt. Clemens known as Grace Church which worshipped according to the forms, usages and religious belief of the Protestant…