Rector, Church Wardens & Vestrymen of the Church of the Transfiguration v. Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The-Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of the Church of the Transfiguration in the City of New York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 2d day of December, 1909.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
This is an áppeal from an order staying the trial of this action until ten days after the entry of an order determining the final appeal by the plaintiff herein from a "judgment obtained against it in another action wherein the defendant herein is plaintiff. Both plaintiff and defendant are religions corporations whose relations have become so strained as to lead them, at the present moment, into active hostility.
The defendant ‘owns and occupies for church purposes a plot of land and a building which formerly belonged to plaintiff by whom it was sold to one Quintard, who afterwards…
2Cited by1 opinion
- Rector v. RectorAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910