Wallace v. Snodgrass
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 94, April T., 1907, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Mercer Co., Jan. T., 1904, No. 138, for defendants non obstante veredicto in ease of Joseph R. Wallace v. Leander Snodgrass et al., Trustees of the United Presbyterian Church of Jamestown, Mercer county, Pa. Assumpsit for salary.
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Appeal, No. 94, April T., 1907, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Mercer Co., Jan. T., 1904, No. 138, for defendants non obstante veredicto in ease of Joseph R. Wallace v. Leander Snodgrass et al., Trustees of the United Presbyterian Church of Jamestown, Mercer county, Pa. Assumpsit for salary. Williams, P. J., filed the following opinion: The defendant congregation is an unincorporated religious association, a member of Lake Presbytery, and, as such, subject to all of the laws, usages and deliverances of the various church courts of the “ United Presbyterian Church of North America,” and…
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Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
The controlling question in this case is one of law, arising out of facts which both parties admit are not in dispute. They are fully, clearly and accurately set forth in the opinion filed by the learned judge below, and there is no occasion for an attempt to restate them, either more elaborately or in more condensed form. From these facts the learned judge drew several legal conclusions, which are clearly and concisely stated in logical order at the end of his opinion. We concur with him in the first three of these conclusions as well as in his general conclusion that…
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- Wallace v. Trustees of General Assembly of United Presbyterian ChurchSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1902