Sarahass v. Armstrong
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Wyandotte District Court. Foreclosure of mortgage, brought by “John Sarahass, William Johnson, and George Peacock, Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Wyandotte and Quindaro Mission, Kansas Conference, plaintiffs,” against Lucy B. Armstrong, defendant. Defendant gave to John Sarahass, Jacob Whitecrow, William Johnson, and John Brown, as trustees, etc., her note for $1100 and interest, on which she had paid $62 as interest.
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Error from Wyandotte District Court. Foreclosure of mortgage, brought by “John Sarahass, William Johnson, and George Peacock, Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Wyandotte and Quindaro Mission, Kansas Conference, plaintiffs,” against Lucy B. Armstrong, defendant. Defendant gave to John Sarahass, Jacob Whitecrow, William Johnson, and John Brown, as trustees, etc., her note for $1100 and interest, on which she had paid $62 as interest. The defense was, that “said plaintiffs are not the trustees of the M. E. Church, Wyandotte and Quindaro Mission, Kansas Conference, nor have they any…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J,:
In July 1866, congress enacted as follows: “That for refunding to Jacob Whitecrow, John Sarahass, and others, trustees and stewards of the Wyandotte and Quindaro Mission, of the Kansas Conference of Methodist Episcopal *194Church, for the destruction of their church-building and library, $4,680, to be applied in rebuilding said buildings, and inclosing the graveyards of the Wyandotte Indians in the state of Kansas, and that the sum hereby appropriated be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.” (14 U. S. Stat. at…
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