Damron v. Clifton

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

This suit relates to the division in the Church of Christ at Dwale, Floyd County. It is the fruit of the disturbing activity of the Reverend A. E. Harper, as were the schisms in the small churches at Martin and Laynesville. See Parker v. Harper, 295 Ky. 686, 175 S. W. 2d 361, and Cecil v. Meade, 305 Ky. 22, 202 S. W. 2d 722. The major difference between this case and the others is the charge that the defendants, namely, the Harper faction, had wrecked and torn down the building and- converted its material to their own use in the erection…