Polish National Catholic Church of St. Francis
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 43, Jan. T., 1906, by the Polish National Catholic Church of St. Francis, from order of C. P. Luzerne Co., refusing Charter In re Application for Charter. Application for charter. Before Halsey, J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was order refusing the charter.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Beaver, J.,
Assuming for the purposes of this case that the appellant correctly states the name of the church in Nanticoke already in existence, although not incorporated, as the St. Francis Roman Catholic Church, the name, under which the applicants in their petition seek to be incorporated, is the Polish National Catholic Church of St. Francis. Selecting from both, therefore the prominent distinguishing words, — and we have, in the one case, the St. Francis Catholic Church, and, in the other, the Catholic Church of St. Francis, — it would be a great stretch of authority on our part…
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