Supreme Court of Pennsylvania May 15, 1841 (Presbyterian Congregation v. Johnston)

lead-opinion

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Gibson, C. J.

This ejectment is brought in the name of the corporation by a minority of the congregation, who, having withdrawn from its stated worship in the church building, insist that the majority have forfeited their corporate rights by dissolving the connexion of the congregation with the Presbytery of Carlisle, and the primitive