[Opinion of the Supreme Court] of the state of New York, in a cause in which James Field was plaintiff and Charles Field defendant.

The lawsuit arose out of a dispute between the "orthodox" and "Hicksite" branches of the Society of Friends over the possession of a school fund.

A full report of the hearing in the House of Lords, on the 13th, 14th, and 15th day of May, and the 24th, 25th, and 28th of June, 1839. On the appeal of the trustees. (From the short-hand notes of Messrs. Gurney and son.) To which are prefixed, the judgment of the vice-chancellor, on the original hearing of the cause before him, Dec. 23rd, 1833, the judgment of Lord Lyndhurst on the appeal to him as lord chancellor, delivered 5th Feb., 1836. The case of the appellants. The case of the respondents.

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