Crenshaw v. Muse

McClendon, chief justice.

This suit gre-w out of a controversy between two factions in the old St. John Church (St. John Missionary Baptist Church) located in the St. John community, near Dale in Caldwell County; which controversy arose out of an effort to unite the St. John Church with the Zion (St. John Zion Baptist Church), another church in that community. The plaintiffs below are the pastor, four of the seven deacons, and one of the three trustees of the St. John Church; and the defendants are the three other deacons, the two other trustees, and some other members of St. John. The relief…