Jarrett v. United Fuel Gas Co.

Lively, President:

These two cases involve the right of the trustees of the Osborne Mills Pastoral Charge of the Methodist' Episcopal Church and the trustees of the Clendenin Pastoral Charge of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to lease two church lots for oil and gas exploitation, one of which lots (a one and one-fourth acre tract) was owned by them jointly and used by both for the purpose of religious worship. The other lot containing about three and one-half acres was owned by the M. E. Church, South. The two causes are governed by the same legal principles, and will be considered…