State Supreme Court / N.Y.

Booth v. Baptist Church of Christ of Poughkeepsie

Decided April 14, 1891. John Ridley Finch wrote the opinion for the court.

28 N.E. 238 · Cited 98 times

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Matter of Accounting of Benson · 96 N.Y. 499
Floyd v. . Carow · 88 N.Y. 560

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