Trustees of South Baptist Church v. Yates

The Assistant Vice-Chancellor :

The bill sets forth that in April, 1832, a church or religious society was duly organized under the name of the South Baptist Church, in the city of New-York, and was subsequently, viz. in the year 1832, duly incorporated by the election of trustees under the title of Trustees of the South Baptist Church in the city of New-York. The certificates were properly made and recorded.

That after the establishment of the society and before its incorporation, John B. Yates, James Fellows and Thomas Skelding, purchased in their own names of the German Reformed Church, a…