Gartin v. Penick
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 19 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL EBOM MARION CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— 2 Star He's Ev.,p. 271. 12 Johnson, 536; Verplank vs. Sieany, 13 Johnson, 285; 18 Johnson, 544. 16 Peters, 119-20; Tompkins vs. 'Wheeler. Constitution and Form of Government and Proceedings of General Conventions and Synods of the Presbyterian Church. CITED— 7 B. Mon., 481; Gibson, Syc., vs. Armstrong. 3 B. Mon., 258; Shannon vs. Frost. 2 Bush; Watson, Syc., vs. Avery, ¿yc. 14 B. Mon., 56 ; Harper vs. Straws.
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CASE 19 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL EBOM MARION CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— 2 Star He's Ev.,p. 271. 12 Johnson, 536; Verplank vs. Sieany, 13 Johnson, 285; 18 Johnson, 544. 16 Peters, 119-20; Tompkins vs. 'Wheeler. Constitution and Form of Government and Proceedings of General Conventions and Synods of the Presbyterian Church. CITED— 7 B. Mon., 481; Gibson, Syc., vs. Armstrong. 3 B. Mon., 258; Shannon vs. Frost. 2 Bush; Watson, Syc., vs. Avery, ¿yc. 14 B. Mon., 56 ; Harper vs. Straws. Constitution and Form of Government of Presbyterian Church. Proceedings of General Conventions and Synods of…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE ROBERTSON
delivered the opinion of tiie majority of the court :
This litigation between conflicting sections of a once harmonious, but now discordant body of Presbyterians, involves fundamental principles in church and State peculiar to our own jurisprudence, and essential to the purity of religion and to the civil liberty contemplated by the Constitutions of the Anglo-American Union and States.
As early as the year 1828, a Presbyterian Church, called the “Bethel Union,” was organized in Marion county, Kentucky. In the year 1857, the appellant, B. N. Penick, who was a member of that…
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