Wallace v. Snodgrass

Citations

• 34 Pa. Super. 551
• 1907 Pa. Super. LEXIS 179

Syllabus

<p>Church law — Presbyterian Church — Dissolution of pastoral relation— Salary of minister.</p> <p>Where a Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church dissolves the pastoral relation between a minister and his congregation without any action on the part of the congregation, the effect-of the dissolution is to suspend the right of the minister to render pastoral services and the liability of the congregation to the minister for compensation, pending a final determination of the question as to the regularity of the action of the Presbytery. In such a case the fact that the action of the Presbytery is thereafter decreed to be illegal, does not affect the status of the parties during the period of litigation, and if the minister seeks and secures other employment during such period, and never offers to resume the pastoral relation, he cannot maintain an action against the congregation for his salary during the period from the dissolution of the pastoral relation to the date of the decree declaring such dissolution invalid.</p>