ISBN: 9781151042217

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 108 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… Plus…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 108 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: . . . Mr. Justice Williams Charge. Gentlemen Of The Jury: --This cause has been tried with signal ability by the counsel on both sides. It has occupied an unusual length of time, and you have given to the evidence and to the arguments of the counsel, your patient attention. They have aided you, as they best could, to determine the evidence upon which you are to pass. It only remains now for you to give the same patient attention to the instructions which the Court is about to deliver, in order that you may be enabled to apply the law as laid down by the Court to the facts as you shall find them. This is a proceeding by a writ of quo warranto issued by this Court, under the provisions of the act of 14th June, 1836. The writ was issued on the 3d of October, 1869, in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at the relation of George Gordon, John Biggerstaff, Ephraim Young, Robert C. Taylor, James Stewart, Robert Fletcher, and James Boyd, against James Graham, William Ray, Thomas Johnston, Thomas M. Kerr, Charles Williams, Abram Walker, and James Smyth, to show by what authority they exercise the franchises, offices, privileges and liberties of a Board of Trustees of The First Reformed Presbyterian Congregation in the City of Philadelphia. The writ was made returnable on the first Monday of January, 1870, and was duly served on the persons named therein as defendants. On the 19th of March, 1870, the relators presented a petition to the Court, showing that their term of office as trustees of the said congregation expired on the first Monday of January, 1870, and that on that day they had been duly and legally re-elected trustees of the said congregation for the year 1870, and that CharlesWilliams, Thomas Johnston, Abram Walker, James Smyth, . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<