MASTER v. SECOND PARISH OF PORTLAND

No. 3692.

124 F.2d 622 (1941)

MASTER et al. v. SECOND PARISH OF PORTLAND et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

December 24, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clement F. Robinson, of Portland, Me. (Robinson & Richardson, Nathan W. Thompson, and Woodman, Skelton, Thompson & Chapman, all of Portland, Me., J. Claude Bedford, and George W. McKeag, both of Philadelphia, Pa., and Carl Zollman, of Milwaukee, Wis., on the brief), for appellants.

Frank P. Preti, of Portland, Me. (Frederic J. Laughlin, of Portland, Me., on the brief) for appellees.

Charles H. Blatchford, of Portland, Me., for Congregational-Christian Conference of Maine.

Before MAGRUDER, MAHONEY, and WOODBURY, Circuit Judges.


MAGRUDER, Circuit Judge.

This controversy involves the question, who is entitled to use and occupy a certain church edifice and to select the minister to preach therein. It goes back to a so-called merger agreement in 1923 between a Congregational church and a Presbyterian church in Portland, Maine. The essential parties to the bill in equity, filed August 31, 1937, are various individuals as members and representatives of the large unincorporated organization known...

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