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Watson Vs. Jones

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 01, 1871

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  1. Peck Vs. Jenness US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1849
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  2. Taylor Vs. Carryl US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1857
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  3. Buck Vs. Colbath US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1865
  4. Hagan Vs. Lucas US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1836
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  5. Freeman Vs. Howe US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1860
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  6. U.S. 679 (1871) U.S. Supreme Court Watson v. Jones
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  7. U.S. 13 Wall. 679 679 (1871) Watson v. Jones
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  8. in its control. Thus matters stood, so far as the church property was concerned, up to the final decree in Avery v. Watson
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  9. As to the nature of the issues in this case of Avery v. Watson
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  10. On the 28th of February, 1868, the complainants in the case of Avery v. Watson
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  11. obedience. Thus far as to the controversy in the Walnut Street Church, involved in the particular case of Watson v. Avery
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  12. constituted the church, although the issue as to membership was not distinctly made in the chancery suit of Avery v. Watson
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  13. be pleaded in bar as a former adjudication of the same matter between the same parties. In the case of Barrows v. Kindred
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  14. issue in the two suits to make the pendency of the one defeat the other, are as fully discussed, in the case of Buck v. Colbath
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  15. This opinion contains a critical review of the cases in this Court of Hagan v. Lucas
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  16. and Freeman v. Howe
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  17. a valid subsisting decree which, though final, is unexecuted. The decisions of this Court in the cases of Taylor v. Carryl
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  18. and Buck v. Colbath
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  19. as construed in the cases of Diggs v. Wolcott
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  20. and Peck v. Jenness
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  21. the declared objects of the trust. In the leading case on this subject in the English courts of the Attorney General v. Pearson
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  22. statement that the court has the right to enforce a trust clearly defined on such a subject. The case of Miller v. Gable
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  23. truth. Of the cases in which this doctrine is applied, no better representative can be found than that of Shannon v. Frost
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  24. principle is ably supported by the learned Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. The case of Smith v. Nelson
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  25. We concede at the outset that the doctrine of the English courts is otherwise. In the case of Attorney General v. Pearson
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  26. and which of the contending parties before the court holds to this standard. And in the subsequent case of Craigdallie v. Aikman
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  27. in the Court of Sessions after no little struggle and resistance. The full history of the case of Craigdallie v. Aikman
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  28. in the Scottish court, which we cannot further pursue, and the able opinion of Lord Meadowbank in Galbraith v. Smith
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  29. the case of Shannon v. Frost
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  30. In the subsequent case of Gibson v. Armstrong
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  31. Episcopal Church, we understand the same principles to be laid down as governing that case, and in the case of Watson v. Avery
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  32. case relied on by the appellants as a bar and considered in the former part of this opinion, the doctrine of Shannon v. Frost
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  33. the subject is that of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina, delivered by Chancellor Johnson in the case of Harmon v. Dreher
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  34. In Den v. Bolton
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  35. on a statute, it is said to be true on general principles. The Supreme Court of Illinois, in the case of Ferraria v. Vasconcelles
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  36. refers to the case of Shannon v. Frost
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  37. In the very important case of Chase v. Cheny
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  38. dissents with Judge Sheldon from the opinion because it so holds. Page 80 U. S. 732 In the case of Watson v. Farris
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  39. In the subsequent case of McGinnis v. Watson
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  40. again applied and supported by a more elaborate argument. The Court of Appeals of Kentucky, in the case of Watson v. Avery
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  41. ecclesiastical questions. And this is precisely what the Court of Appeals of Kentucky did in the case of Watson v. Avery
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  42. Watson v. Avery
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  43. Payne v. Drewe
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  44. Evelyn v. Lewis
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  45. Noe v. Gibson
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  46. Russell v. East
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  47. U.S. Supreme Court Watson v. Jones
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  48. Avery v. Watson
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  49. of Avery v. Watson
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  50. of Watson v. Avery
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