German Reformed Church v. Commonwealth ex rel. Seibert
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Lebanon county. June 24. In this case, Jacob Seibert, the relator, upon the following petition and affidavit, obtained a rule to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to “ The Corporation of the German Reformed church of Heidelberg,” the respondents, plaintiff in error and defendant below, to restore the said Jacob Seibert to the standing and rights of a member of the said corporation.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Lebanon county. June 24. In this case, Jacob Seibert, the relator, upon the following petition and affidavit, obtained a rule to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to “ The Corporation of the German Reformed church of Heidelberg,” the respondents, plaintiff in error and defendant below, to restore the said Jacob Seibert to the standing and rights of a member of the said corporation. “ The petition of Jacob Seibert, of the township of Millcreek, in the county of Lebanon, and state of Pennsylvania, respectfully represents, that your petitioner, Jacob…
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, J.
The facts on which the case is ruled appear in the answer and rejoinder of the respondent, which, for the purpose of closing the pleadings, the relator admits to be true. We therefore discard all technical objections, as well as the one, .that the answer is not signed by the corporation, to which, if excep*291tionable, the relator should have demurred. By the charter, none but members of the German Reformed church of Heidelberg, citizens of the Commonwealth, are corporators; and as a person excommunicated ceases to be a member,-he loses his right as a corporator. The consistory, it seems,…
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