Stansbery v. Church
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: William N. Gatens, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Harris. This is a suit by S. A. Stansbery, C. W. Gay, John Foott, Lot Taylor, W. H. Beharrel and J. P. Finley against the First Methodist Episcopal Church, a corporation, and A. M. Smith, G. F. Johnson, J. L. Hartman, Phillip Buchner, J. P. Rasmussen, T. S. McDaniel, John Corkish, James Bradshaw, J. K. Gill and A. King Wilson, as trustees of said corporation, and Frank L. Loveland, as pastor thereof, and it…
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From Multnomah: William N. Gatens, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Harris. This is a suit by S. A. Stansbery, C. W. Gay, John Foott, Lot Taylor, W. H. Beharrel and J. P. Finley against the First Methodist Episcopal Church, a corporation, and A. M. Smith, G. F. Johnson, J. L. Hartman, Phillip Buchner, J. P. Rasmussen, T. S. McDaniel, John Corkish, James Bradshaw, J. K. Gill and A. King Wilson, as trustees of said corporation, and Frank L. Loveland, as pastor thereof, and it involves lot 8, the north half of lot No. 7, the west 20 feet of lot 1, and the west 20 feet of the north half of lot 2,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Haeeis
Summarizing the detailed statement already made, the case presented here is one where a society of Methodists established a mission church in 1848, constructed a house of worship at the corner -of Third and Taylor Streets in 1850, and was incorporated in 1867 as the ‘ ‘ First Methodist Episcopal Church in Portland, Oregon”; in 1884 the “Grace Methodist Episcopal Church of Portland, Oregon,” was organized, and its house of worship was located at Twelfth and Taylor Streets; each society was a constituent body of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States of America, and was subject to…
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