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WATSON v. JONES.

80 U.S. 679 (____)

13 Wall. 679

WATSON v. JONES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. T.W. Bullitt, for the appellants.

Messrs. B.H. Bristow and J.M. Harlan, contra.

Mr. Justice MILLER now delivered the opinion of the court.

This case belongs to a class, happily rare in our courts, in which one of the parties to a controversy, essentially ecclesiastical, resorts to the judicial tribunals of the State for the maintenance of rights which the church has refused to acknowledge, or found itself unable to protect. Much as such dissensions among the members of a religious society should

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