Incorporation of the Matki Boski Bolesne Polish National Catholic Church
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 31, March T., 1917, by Martin Kristula from order of C. P. Luzerne Co., May T., 1916, No. 84, refusing application for charter In re Incorporation of the Matki Boski Bolesne Polish National Catholic Church. Application for charter.
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Appeal, No. 31, March T., 1917, by Martin Kristula from order of C. P. Luzerne Co., May T., 1916, No. 84, refusing application for charter In re Incorporation of the Matki Boski Bolesne Polish National Catholic Church. Application for charter. Before Fuller, J. The application for the charter contain inter alia, the following articles, viz: “1. The name of the proposed corporation is the Matki Boski Bolesne Polish National Catholic Church and Congregation of Dupont, Pittston Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.” “2. The purpose for which the corporation is formed is the worship of Almighty…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Oklady, P. J.,
The only assignment of error in this appeal is the refusal of the court below to approve the petition and certificate of incorporation of the appellant. The reason given was that the proposed name was such, that there would be an undoubted tendency to mislead many of the persons living in the immediate neighborhood of the proposed church as to its ecclesiastical character. The testimony clearly shows that the petitioners’ application for the charter is made by persons of Polish birth or descent, who formerly were in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, and that…
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- African Methodist Episcopal Union ChurchSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1905