Pa. State Spirit. Assn. v. 1st Ch. of SR & H.

430 Pa. 527 (1968)

Pennsylvania State Spiritualist Association, Appellant,

v.

First Church of Spiritual Research and Healing.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Argued April 29, 1968.

July 1, 1968.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

Howard R. Moore, Jr., with him Henry T. Reath, Werner J. Trimborn, of the Wisconsin Bar, and Duane, Morris & Heckscher, for appellants.

Robert E. Lenton, for appellees.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, July 1, 1968:

The National Spiritualist Association of Churches of America (hereinafter National Association), and one of its state…