Legal Opinion

Powanda v. Pido

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 25, 1931No. Appeal, 83PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Feazee,

For more than three years, the congregation of the First Slavish Boman Catholic Greek Bite Chnrch of Clairton has been in the throes of factional conflict and division. The three individual plaintiffs are the trustees of the church and defendants represent a faction in sympathy with the installation of Beverend Molchany as priest of the congregation. This is the second occasion upon which a phase of this controversy has been before us. In an earlier equity suit, in which all present defendants were plaintiffs and the present trustee-plaintiffs were…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. President of St. Patrick Benevolent SocietySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1810
  2. Chrapko v. KobasaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
  3. Diligent Fire Co. v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1874
  4. Macavicza v. Workingman's ClubSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1914
  5. St. Mary's Immaculate Conception Greek Catholic Church's PetitionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1929

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Matura v. United Societies of Greek Catholic Religion of U. S.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1937
  2. Pizur v. Greek Catholic Union of Russian BrotherhoodsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1935
  3. Slanina v. Greek Catholic Union of Russian BrotherhoodsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1943
  4. Takach v. MolchanySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1935
  5. Markowitz v. St. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Lehigh County1954

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