State ex rel. St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church v. Riley

Relators, in their request that a writ of mandamus issue, ask that an order be directed against respondent which will require their real adversaries to surrender the church property pendente lite. Relators contend that they had possession of the church property prior to the erroneous partial summary judgment granted by the Court of Common Pleas. They ask return of “all that was lost by reason of the void and illegal judgments of the Court of Common Pleas. ’ ’

However, it is not clear from the record exactly what relators lost through the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas. Relators allege…