ST. NICHOLAS CATHEDRAL v. KRESHIK


9 Misc.2d 1069 (1957)

Saint Nicholas Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church of North America, Plaintiff, v. Wassil A. Kreshik, as Dean of Saint Nicholas Cathedral, et al., Defendants.

Supreme Court, Trial Term, New York County.

July 3, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Tuttle for plaintiff.

Philip Adler for defendants.


HENRY EPSTEIN, J.

The Supreme Court of the United States has declared article 5-C of the Religious Corporations Law of New York, enacted in 1945 and amended in 1948 (L. 1948, ch. 711) to be an unconstitutional interference with the exercise of religion under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States (Kedroff v. St. Nicholas Cathedral, 344 U.S. 94). The controversy which the statutes...

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