. A manual of the discipline of the Methodist Episcopal church, South [electronic resource], including the decisions of the College of bishops and rules of order applicable to ecclesiastical courts and s the preacher actedcontrary to the law, or without law ? Was his mal-administration excusable, or was it due to culpa-ble ignorance, to carelessness, to prejudice, orpassion, or a purpose to gratify personal animos-ity? It is for the Conference to settle thesequestions, and also what censure, if any, is tobe awarded. 7. When an Annual Conference decides thata Presiding Elder has b
. A manual of the discipline of the Methodist Episcopal church, South [electronic resource], including the decisions of the College of bishops and rules of order applicable to ecclesiastical courts and s the preacher actedcontrary to the law, or without law ? Was his mal-administration excusable, or was it due to culpa-ble ignorance, to carelessness, to prejudice, orpassion, or a purpose to gratify personal animos-ity? It is for the Conference to settle thesequestions, and also what censure, if any, is tobe awarded. 7. When an Annual Conference decides thata Presiding Elder has been guilty of malad-ministration in all and singular, the proceed-ings of a Quarterly Conference, by which anordained local preacher was deprived of hiscredentials, the effect of such decision operatesa nullity on the trial, and leaves the appellant,in regard to membership and office, where hewas before the trial begun * v SEC. II.—APPEALS. 1. An appeal is a removal of a cause, alreadydecided, from an inferior to a superior is allowable only where judgment has beenrendered and submitted to, and to the partyagainst whom it has been rendered. As it is aconstitutional provision, much margin should be. 152 COURTS OF REVIEW. allowed it, and no application for a rehearing onappeal ought to be rejected unless upon goodgrounds. The appellate court, of course, musthave some discretion, and is not obliged to en-tertain every appeal that is presented. Thisprivilege, though it cannot be done away,must nevertheless be defined and regulated inits operation. 2. The appeal must be not only from thelower to the next higher court, but to the nextensuing session of it. An appeal of a memberis to the next ensuing Quarterly Conference, ofa local preacher to the next ensuing AnnualConference, of a traveling preacher to the nextensuing General Conference. 3. That an appeal may be entertained, it isrequired that notice be given to the court belowwithin a certain time. It is highly proper, a
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