SMITH ET AL. v. SWORMSTEDT ET AL.


57 U.S. 288 (____)

16 How. 288

WILLIAM A. SMITH AND OTHERS, v. LEROY SWORMSTEDT AND OTHERS.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Stanberry, for the appellants, and by Mr. Badger and Mr. Ewing, for the appellees.


Mr. Justice NELSON delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio.

The bill is filed by the complainants, for themselves, and in behalf of the travelling and worn out preachers in connection with the society of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in the United States, against the defendants, to recover their share of a fund called...

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