Kutz v. Hepler

Opinion delivered July 12, 1875, by

Walker, J.

The complainants in the bill ask for a special injunction to restrain the respondent from deterring, interfering, and preventing the congregation of the Evangelical Association of Eldred township (of which the complainants are the trustees) from worshiping in a certain new church edifice in that township. The bill alleges that the defendant erected the church on his own land in place of an old one about a mile off, at the cost of about $4700, for the purpose of public worship. That on the 25th of October, 1874, he dedicated it to divine worship,…