Weckerly v. Ministers of the German Lutheran Congregation
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
The plaintiff in this case having obtained against the defendants a verdict for two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars, a rule was granted, on behalf of the latter, for a new trial, which was argued by J. Randall in support of the rule, and by J. R. Ingersoll against it.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the- court, which embraces all that is material in the case, was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
This is an action on the case, and was brought by the plaintiff against the defendants, to recover and be indemnified for the amount of damages and costs which were recovered from him in three actions brought against him severally by Andrew Geyer, H. Burkhardt, and P. Lex, for having fraudulently and maliciously refused to receive their respective votes at an election held by the members of the German Lutheran Congregations of St. Michael’s and Zion’s churches, on the 29th day of October,…
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