A Complete Synopsis of the Great Pew Case: From the Institution to the Final Decree of the Supreme Court of Canada: James Johnston (Plaintiff), Appellant and the Minister and Trustees of St. Andrew's Church, Montreal (Defendants) Respondents

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A Complete Synopsis of the Great Pew Case: From the Institution to the Final Decree of the Supreme Court of Canada: James Johnston (Plaintiff), Appellant and the Minister and Trustees of St. Andrew's Church, Montreal (Defendants) Respondents
Abstract
An account of a series of trials in the 1870s over the rental of Pew 68 in St. Andrew's Church, then located on Montreal's Beaver Hall Hill Street. Although the plaintiff, James Johnson, lost in the lower lever courts, he won his case in the Supreme Court of Canada and was awarded $300 damages and full costs in all the courts.
Place
Montreal
Publisher
Dawson Brothers
Date
1877
Language
en
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"Comprising the pleadings and judgements, of the Superior Court, of the Court of Appeals for Lower Canada, and of the Supreme Court of Canada; the remarks of all the judges, and of their lordships the justices of the Supreme Court; with an introduction and appendix."

Citation
McGibbon, Robert D. A Complete Synopsis of the Great Pew Case: From the Institution to the Final Decree of the Supreme Court of Canada: James Johnston (Plaintiff), Appellant and the Minister and Trustees of St. Andrew’s Church, Montreal (Defendants) Respondents. Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1877. https://archive.org/stream/cihm_24145#page/n7/mode/2up.
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