Barna v. Kirczow
New Jersey Court of Chancery
The bill in this suit was filed on the 10th of January, 1906. It alleged, that the complainants, Barna and two others, were members in good, standing of the Little Russian Greek Catholic Church of S.t.
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The bill in this suit was filed on the 10th of January, 1906. It alleged, that the complainants, Barna and two others, were members in good, standing of the Little Russian Greek Catholic Church of S.t. Peter and St. Paul of Jersey City, an association incorporated under, an act entitled “An act to incorporate associations not for pecuniary profit;” that the three complainants, together with two others, were elected trustees of said church in the year 1904 to serve for the year 1905, and that the two' other trustees, who were not complainants, had withdrawn from the association and left the…
1Opinion of the Court
Garrison, Y. C.
(after stating facts).
Although the purpose of the incorporation of this association was to- maintain a place of religious worship, and the use to which it puts its money and property is religious, it is not incorporated under any act regulating religious bodies, and I know of no statutory law of this state relating to religious corporations, or of any church law of any specific denomination or creed, which bears upon the situation presented in this suit.
The association is incorporated as an association not for pecuniary profit, and is now regulated by the laws of 1898. P. L.…
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