Sanders v. Edwards

Jenkists, Presiding Justice.

On a petition signed by nine of the ten

deacons of Springfield Baptist Church, and by all of the ten trustees, alleging that the pastor of said church had on charges preferred been duly removed as such by the governing church authority, to wit, the congregation in conference assembled, but that he continued to function as such and to occupy the pulpit, declared to be vacant, and to occupy the parsonage although no longer entitled to do so, and praying that he be enjoined from such activities as pastor and from longer occupying the “parsonage,” the judge after…