Gass v. Wilhite

JiiSge Nicholas

delivered the following Opinion of a majority of the Court

from which Judge Underwood dissented.

This is a proceeding in chancery, in behalf of Gass and Bonta, two seceding members of .the religious society called Shakers, resident at Pleasant Hill, in Mercer county, for the purpose of obtaining a division of the property belonging to the society, and having their shares allotted to them, either upon the principle of ^equality, as two of its covenant members, or according to the amount of property .each carried with him into the society.

The following is the substance of the…