KRAFTICIAN v. GREEK CATH. CONGREGATION


366 Pa. 431 (1951)

Kraftician v. St. Peter and St. Paul's Russian Greek Catholic Congregation of Carnegie, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 8, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Garrahan, with him Gregory Zatkovich, Vincent M. Casey and Margiotti & Casey, for appellants.

Elder W. Marshall and John A. Metz, Jr., with them John A. Metz, Metz & Metz and David Friedman, for appellees.

Before DREW, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, LADNER and CHIDSEY, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE JONES, January 8, 1951:

The plaintiffs and defendants (except for the defendant church and the Carnegie National Bank, its depository) are contending factions of St. Peter and St. Paul's Russian Greek Catholic Congregation of Carnegie, Pennsylvania, a corporation. Their controversy revolves around whether the church was organized as a Greek Catholic church in union with Rome or a congregational church independent of either the ecclesiastical...

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