Daly v. St. Patrick's Catholic Church

Mr. Justice "Walker

delivered the opinion of the Court:

For a number of years St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, at Sterling, had been organized, was incorporated, and belonged to the diocese of Chicago, which is presided over by a bishop. He, according to the usages of the church organization, stations or locates priests in the several parishes or congregations within his jurisdiction. About the 3d of July, 1863, the bishop appointed the Rev. John Daly to this parish, and he entered upon and continued to perform the duties of a priest of that church until about the month of May, 1876. Previous to…