African Methodist Episcopal Union Church

Citations

• 28 Pa. Super. 193
• 1905 Pa. Super. LEXIS 164

Syllabus

<p>Appeals — Certiorari—Record—Corporation—Charter—Amendment.</p> <p>On an appeal from a decree of the court of common pleas amending the charter of a church, the only question reviewable in the Superior Court is the regularity of the proceedings as shown by the record brought up by the certiorari.</p> <p>Corporation — Charter—Amendment—Notice—Meetings.</p> <p>Where under the charter of a church, an amendment thereof can only be adopted by the votes of two-thirds of the male members of the congregation, an amendment adopted at a meeting by the required two-thirds votes, and subsequently signed by more than two-thirds of the members of the congregation, being the same persons who had voted for the amendment at the meeting, cannot be sustained if it appears that no notice had been given that the amendment would be proposed at the meeting.</p>