Gram v. Prussia Emigrated Evangelical Lutheran German Society

We may assume, from the facts found by the referee, that the religious incorporation named as one of the Defendants in this case received and held, so far as it might legally do so, the property which it held, under certain trusts, for the propagation and support of the German Evangelical Lutheran faith, including doctrines and government, as held and practised by the German Evangelical Lutheran churches under the Synod of Buffalo and its ministry.

Also, that the action of the Defendants’ trustees, in prohibiting the Plaintiff Gram, pastor of the church, from performing his functions as such…