Riddle v. Stevens
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Error. ERROR to the Common Pleas of Huntingdon county. This was an action brought at April*Term, 1810, by the Reverend Matthew Stevens against Robert Riddle, and thirty-one others, to recover on a written contract for services performed by the plaintiff as minister of the congregation of Shaver's creek. The defendants were signers of a writing known in the Presbyterian church by the name of a call.
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In Error. ERROR to the Common Pleas of Huntingdon county. This was an action brought at April*Term, 1810, by the Reverend Matthew Stevens against Robert Riddle, and thirty-one others, to recover on a written contract for services performed by the plaintiff as minister of the congregation of Shaver's creek. The defendants were signers of a writing known in the Presbyterian church by the name of a call. By this they invited tbe plaintiff to be their pastor, and concluded in the following terms- — “ And further, as we are persuaded “ that they who serve at the altar should live by the altar, we…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman C. J.
(After stating the case.) On the counter-statement no formal issue was joined, but the plaintiff moved the Court to strike out certain points which contained matter of a scandalous nature, impertinent and- unnecessary to the defence. This motion was granted, and the Court gave their opinion and their reasons according to the act of assembly. This is the first error assigned.
1. The Court has a right to preserve the' purity of its re* cords. Its proceedings are not to be converted into a machinery for circulating slander. Whatever is necessary to bring the merits of the cause to…
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