Gibbs v. Gilead Ecclesiastical Society
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit, for salary claimed to be due the plaintiff for services as a clergyman; brought tp the Superior Court for Hartford.county, and tried to the jury on the general issue with notice, before Pardee, J. The bill of particulars filed in the case w;as as follows: ' To services as preacher before settlement from July 28th, 1866, at $10 per Sabbath and hoard, seven Sabbaths, $70.00 To balance due for board, 3£ weeks, at 4.50, 15.75 To salary after settlement as agreed, for…
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Assumpsit, for salary claimed to be due the plaintiff for services as a clergyman; brought tp the Superior Court for Hartford.county, and tried to the jury on the general issue with notice, before Pardee, J. The bill of particulars filed in the case w;as as follows: ' To services as preacher before settlement from July 28th, 1866, at $10 per Sabbath and hoard, seven Sabbaths, $70.00 To balance due for board, 3£ weeks, at 4.50, 15.75 To salary after settlement as agreed, for one year from Sept. 12th, 1866, 600.00—685.75 Cr. By cash at sundry times, 393.84 $291.91 Interest from Sept. 12th,…
1Opinion of the CourtButler, C. J.
The supposed errors of the court below for which a new trial is claimed relate exclusively to the manner in which the case was submitted to the jury. Injustice may have been done the plaintiff by the proceedings of the church and society in Gilead, and of the consociation of Tolland county, and by the verdict of the jury, but we cannot revise their proceedings on this motion except so far as they constituted the subject-matter of the requests made to the court in relation to the charge. Looking then at those requests, the facts involved in them, and the charge as made, we are all satisfied…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Whitney v. First Ecclesiastical Society in BrooklynSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1824
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