Rector, Churchwardens & Vestrymen of Christ's Church v. Collett

Kapper, J.:

This controversy involves the right of the defendant, as a minister of the Protestant Episcopal church, to enter upon and hold church property and officiate therein as such minister after the expiration* of the term for which it is claimed by the plaintiff the defendant was employed. The Special Term rendered a judgment in favor of the plaintiff upon the merits, after trial, enjoining and restraining the defendant from performing ministerial functions in said church, from entering upon the property of said church for the purpose of officiating at said church as minister, and from…