Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States

Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Submitted January 7, 1892 Argued January 7, 1892 Decided February 29, 1892
Full case name	Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States
Citations	143 U.S. 457 (more) 12 S. Ct. 511; 36 L. Ed. 226; 1892 U.S. LEXIS 2036
Case history
Prior	Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York
Holding
The circuit court erred when it held that the contract hiring an English rector was within the prohibition of the statute, which disallowed a "person, company, partnership, or corporation, in any manner whatsoever to prepay the transportation, or in any way assist or encourage the importation or migration, of any alien or aliens, any foreigner or foreigners, into the United States ... under contract or agreement ... to perform labor or service of any kind in the United States".
Court membership
Chief Justice Melville Fuller Associate Justices Stephen J. Field · John M. Harlan Horace Gray · Samuel Blatchford Lucius Q. C. Lamar II · David J. Brewer Henry B. Brown
Case opinion
Majority	Brewer, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
U.S. chap. 164, 23 St. p. 332

Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U.S. 457 (1892), was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding an employment contract between the Church of the Holy Trinity, New York and an English Anglican priest.^[1]