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Show (By W. TJ. Telegraph ' THE METHODIST BOOK FRAUDS. jNew York, 12. The case of Dr. Lanaham against Dr. Carleton came up in the Supreme Court today. to-day. The motion for a mandamus manda-mus was opposed on the ground that Dr. Lanahan was only an assistant assist-ant agent, aud by the resolution of the general committee made subordinate to Dr. Carleton; also that he has been suspended from his functions as such subordinate, that the act incorporating the concern has never been accepted by the conference, and, finally, that by the resolution of the committee, Lanahan Lan-ahan was permitted to examine such j books as he wanted in the presence and under tho supervision of such person or persons as might be selected by Carleton. In behalf of the motion it was argued that by the book of discipline, discip-line, as well as the act of incorporation, incorpora-tion, the assistant agent is made, for all purposes of tho tract company, equal with the aireuts, and that when he discovers a fraud in the appropriation appropri-ation of funds, it is his duty to expose it, and that the court should lend him all the aid in its power. As to the act of incorporation not beisg accepted by tho conference, counsel argued that the committee and trustees had already used it so far as concerned tho holding of real estate aud were stopped from 1 repudiating it. At the couclusiou of j the argument tho court took the papersl and reserved its decision. |