Krauczunas v. Hoban
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 368, Jan. T., 1907, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Lackawanna Co., Jan. T., 1907, No. 2, dismissing bill in equity in case of Andrew Krauczunas et al. v. Michael J. Hoban. Bill in equity to compel a conveyance of real estate.
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Appeal, No. 368, Jan. T., 1907, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Lackawanna Co., Jan. T., 1907, No. 2, dismissing bill in equity in case of Andrew Krauczunas et al. v. Michael J. Hoban. Bill in equity to compel a conveyance of real estate. Edwards, P. J., found the facts to be as follows : 1. The plaintiffs, ten in number, bring suit for themselves and their associates, who constitute an unincorporated religious association, named the St. Joseph’s Lithuanian Catholic Congregation. The defendant is the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Scranton diocese. 2. The said congregation is composed…
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Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
The findings of fact by the court below are entirely adequate to an intelligent understanding of the case, and we see no reason to question the correctness of any of them. The plaintiffs and those associated with them, and whom they here represent, constitute the St. Joseph’s Lithuanian Catholic Congregation of the city of Scranton, an unincorporated religious association organized in 1892, and which is under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the defendant as Bishop of the Scranton diocese (finding No. 1). In 1893 the congregation contracted for the purchase of…
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