Wallace v. Trustees of General Assembly of United Presbyterian Church
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 99, Oct. T., 1901, by de- fendants, from order of O. P.No. 1, Allegheny Co., June T., 1898, No. 581, on bill in equity in case of J. R. Wallace v. The Trustees of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, and R. G. Ferguson, Moderator; William J. Reid, First Clerk, and A. G. Wallace, Second Clerk of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America.
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Appeal, No. 99, Oct. T., 1901, by de- fendants, from order of O. P.No. 1, Allegheny Co., June T., 1898, No. 581, on bill in equity in case of J. R. Wallace v. The Trustees of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, and R. G. Ferguson, Moderator; William J. Reid, First Clerk, and A. G. Wallace, Second Clerk of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America. Bill in equity to declare void the action of the defendant in sustaining the action of the Lake Presbytery in dismissing plaintiff as pastor of the Jamestown Congregation. The case…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Dean,
In 1892, Lake Presbytery of which the Jamestown, Mercer County Congregation is a member dissolved the pastoral relation between the latter and its pastor Rev. J. R. Wallace, this appellee. On complaint of the pastor of injustice in this proceeding, it was reviewed by the synod, a higher ecclesiastical court; the synod reversed the action of the presbytery. The presbytery then appealed to the general assembly, the church court of last resort, which court in 1893 reversed the action of the synod. The plaintiff then filed his bill in the common pleas averring, that he…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wallace v. Trustees of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North AmericaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
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