Lindstrom v. Tell
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Marshall county against Lars M. Tell and four other individuals, the Mamrelund Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, a corporation, and the president, secretary and trustees of that corporation, to recover possession of church premises, in said county and the books and records, and to enjoin the defendants and their agents from interfering with plaintiffs as the true and only Mamrelund Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Congregation and C. G.…
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Action in the district court for Marshall county against Lars M. Tell and four other individuals, the Mamrelund Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, a corporation, and the president, secretary and trustees of that corporation, to recover possession of church premises, in said county and the books and records, and to enjoin the defendants and their agents from interfering with plaintiffs as the true and only Mamrelund Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Congregation and C. G. Gronberg, its pastor, in teaching the doctrines and faith of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church in its place of…
1Opinion of the CourtHallam, J.
The Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church is a large religious denomination, the churches of which are associated together in the Augustana Synod. The denomination is strictly orthodox in its beliefs, and conducts worship according to certain established forms.
The Mamrelund Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Congregation is a church corporation owning a church edifice in the town of Lincoln, in Marshall county, Minnesota. The corporation was formed to establish and maintain an Evangelical Lutheran church, to provide a place of public worship for the same, and to receive as members persons adhering to…
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