The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-09-28
LoYAL1sr c. p.'s AND UN1oNIsrs
Have Status Defined by Chancellor
Bearden.

ayOttNhAAA(1 SAAsg up
the suit of Ira Landrith ct al. VS.. ].
L. Hudgins ct al, which involves
the issues between the dissenting
Cum berland Presbyterians and the
unionists, and which h been
pending for several days, Chancel-
lor Beardon handed down an opIn-
ion to-day, the effect of which is to
leave in force the injunction so far
as it prevents the members, officers
and ministers of the church named
in the Injunction who renounce the
united church from bringing any
suit or taking any step in court in
relation to any house of worship or
parsonage belonging to what was
t b e Cumberland Presbyterian
Church. 1t allows the remaining
members to use the name Cumber-
land Presbyterian as part Of the
names of their organizations, and
because the Board of Publication
was not made party to the suit
the court refused to continue the
injunction as to manufacturing and
selling the Confession of Faith and
other books of the church.
The court allows unionist and
anti-unionist both to use the church
houses at Fayetteville, Mckenzie
and Kenton, each one-half the time.
The Chancellor decree is as fol-
lows:
"Ira Landreth ct al. VS.. j. L. Hudg-
ins ct al. Be it remembered that on
the ed day of September, 1906, the
fourth day of the term and
former days, this cause was heard
before the Hon. w. S. Bearden, Chan
cellor, etc, on motion OF defendants
on bill and answer to dissolve the in
junction issued herein, when the
court, after due consideration, or
dered, adjudged and decreed that the
motion be and is sustained and the
injunction dissolved as to the third
and fourth prohibitions thereof inl
reference to the use Of the name Cum
berland Presbyterian Church, and the
manufacture and sale of its Confes-
sion of Faith and other books, as to
which the same liberty is allowed
as was enjoyed before the
issuance of the injunction.
sit is further ordered, adjudged and
decreed that the other two prohibi-
tions of this injunction be and are
modified as hereinafter stated.
"The first prohibition is so modified
as to permit tcomplainants and defend
ants at Fayetteville, Mckenzie and
Kenton to use the houses Of worship /
ut those places from IL o'clock every
night until II o'clock noon
the following Sunday, and from II
o'clock noon every Sunday to 12o'clock
1T night. alternately, complainants
TO have the first and defendants the
second half OF Sunday, Sept. %, 1905,
1t said places, respectively, and de-
'endants to have the first half and
the second half of the
lext Sunday, and SO on alternately
until the final hearing of this cause,
Ind that defendants be and are per-
nitted to use said houses of worship,
every Monday, Tuesday
ind Wednesday, day and night, and
every Thursday, Friday
ind Saturday, day and night. Such
lse not in any way to affect the legal
lights of either complainants or de-
endants to the said property.
"Inasmuch as none OF the incorpor-
ted Boards, agencies or institutions |
# the church are now before the court,
nd the affairs of same are in the
lands Of their respective directories,
r officers, the court in upholding for
he present item 2 of the Injunction
S set forth on page q, of printed
opy of the bill, Is now contained not
o inhibit the institution Of suits de-
reed necessary for the proper admin