MR. JUSTICE WOODS delivered the opinion of the court.
The bill in this case was filed by John W. Ebbinghaus, the appellee, as trustee for the German Calvinist Society and their legal representatives. His appointment as trustee was brought about in the following manner: On July 16th, 1877, August Sievers, Edward Kolb and Ludwig Freund, as trustees of the First German Reformed Church of Washington, D.C., filed their petition in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia...
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