Voorhees v. Presbyterian Church
New York Supreme Court
This cause was tried at the Montgomery circuit by the court. The action was brought to recover possession of Pew No. 45 in the church of the defendants or the place formerly occupied by such pew in the church edifice, and damages sustained by reason of the trustees of the church entering upon such pew and ejecting the plaintiffs therefrom and removing such pew with the appurtenances, &c.
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This cause was tried at the Montgomery circuit by the court. The action was brought to recover possession of Pew No. 45 in the church of the defendants or the place formerly occupied by such pew in the church edifice, and damages sustained by reason of the trustees of the church entering upon such pew and ejecting the plaintiffs therefrom and removing such pew with the appurtenances, &c. It appeared by the pleadings and was conceded on the trial that the- church was regularly incorporated in 1807 under the general incorporating act of 1801 (1 Webst. §■ Skin. ed. 338); and that the other…
1Opinion of the Court
Paige, Justice.
The Presbyterian Church of Amsterdam village, &c., one of the defendants, was regularly incorporated under the “ act to provide for the incorporation of religious societies,” passed 27th March 1801. The 4th section of that act provided that the trustees of the congregation incorporated under the act were authorized and empowered to take into their possession and custody all the temporalities belonging to the congregation whether the same consisted of real or personal estate, and whether the same should have been given, granted or devised directly to such congregation, or to any…
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