Jennings v. Scarborough
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On certiorari to review an order of the bishop of the diocese of New Jersey dissolving the pastoral relation between the prosecutor, as rector, and the parish of Grace Church in Westfield.
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On certiorari to review an order of the bishop of the diocese of New Jersey dissolving the pastoral relation between the prosecutor, as rector, and the parish of Grace Church in Westfield. The order in question is in these words: “At a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of New Jersey, held in Elizabeth, on Monday, February 27, 1893, the following order of the Bishop of the Diocese in connection with the ease The Vestry of Grace Church, West-field, versus the Rev. J. B. Jennings, was duly considered and approved by a majority of those present, the Rev. H. H. Oberly not voting. “…
1Opinion of the Court
*403The opinion of the court was delivered by
Depue, J.
The prosecutor, an ordained clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was, in May, 1889, canonically transferred to the diocese of Yew Jersey, of which the defendant John Scarborough was bishop. By a vote of the vestry of Westfield, Yew Jersey, adopted September 29th, 1890, he was called to the rectorship of that church, at the yearly salary of $1,000. The call was accepted, and he entered upon his duties as rector on the 22d of October, 1890.
By a canon of the Protestant Episcopal Church a rector canonically elected and in charge cannot…
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