Reformed Church v. . Schoolcraft
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term - of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department setting aside a verdict in favor of plaintiff, and granting a new trial. (Reported helow, 5 Lans., 206.) This action was ejectment to recover the basement of á church. The material facts are as follows: The High Dutch Reformed Church of Schoharie was an old church organization, whose records extended back as far as the year l'TSO.
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Appeal from order of the General Term - of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department setting aside a verdict in favor of plaintiff, and granting a new trial. (Reported helow, 5 Lans., 206.) This action was ejectment to recover the basement of á church. The material facts are as follows: The High Dutch Reformed Church of Schoharie was an old church organization, whose records extended back as far as the year l'TSO. It had transacted business as a regular church corporation, and had a corporate seal. For many years the church edifice of this organization was located at Schoharie, about…
1Opinion of the Court
Earl, C.
It was not disputed on the argument before us that the High Dutch Reformed Church of Schoharie was properly incorporated, and that it took title to the premises upon which the church was erected at Gallupville by the deed of Gallup and Wheeler, dated April 15,1835. That corporation built a church upon the premises and continued to occupy them, using both the church at Schoharie and Gallupville until June, 1844, when, at a meeting of its consistory, proceedings were taken to divide the congregation represented by the corporation, and a division was made setting off from the parent…
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