Manning v. Shoop
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 26, May T., 1895, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Dauphin Co., No. 153, Equity Docket, on bill in equity. Bill in equity to restrain the occupation of the pulpit and parsonage of a church. The case was referred to a master who reported in favor of the plaintiffs.
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Appeal, No. 26, May T., 1895, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Dauphin Co., No. 153, Equity Docket, on bill in equity. Bill in equity to restrain the occupation of the pulpit and parsonage of a church. The case was referred to a master who reported in favor of the plaintiffs. The hearing upon exceptions to the master’s report was held over by agreement of parties until the decision of the Supreme Court was rendered in the case of Krecker et al. v. Shirey et al., 168 Pa. 534. After the announcement of this decision a decree was entered in the court below, without argument, in favor of the…
1Per curiam
The single question presented by this appeal is whether the learned court erred in decreeing “that the corporation, the Seybert’s Church of the Evangelical Association of Williams-town, Pa., pay the costs accrued in this case out of the funds and property of said corporation.”
It is conceded that in cases such as this, the courts are invested with discretionary authority as to the disposition of costs. In view of the facts disclosed by the record in this case we are fully satisfied that the discretion, with which the learned president of the common pleas was thus invested, was wisely and…
2Cited by1 opinion
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