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MUNICIPALITY OF PONCE v. ROMAN CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH

No. 143.

210 U.S. 296 (1908)

28 S.Ct. 737

52 L.Ed. 1068

MUNICIPALITY OF PONCE v. ROMAN CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN PORTO RICO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 1908.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frederick L. Cornwell, for appellant, submitted.

Mr. Frederic R. Coudert and Mr. Howard Thayer Kingsbury, with whom Mr. Paul Fuller was on the brief, for appellee.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit was brought under an act of the legislative assembly of Porto Rico, entitled "An act to confer original jurisdiction on the Supreme Court of Porto Rico for the trial and adjudication of certain property claimed by the Roman Catholic Church in Porto Rico," approved March 10, 1904, as follows:

"Be it enacted...

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