Edwards v. Thomas

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

The amended petition of members of a Baptist church, reciting that they sued for themselves and other members, against H. T. Thomas, alleged that, at a church conference attended by approximately forty out of a membership of 800 to 1000, it was regularly decided to discharge the defendant as pastor, that he had refused to quit and continued to act as pastor, dominating the church and in many ways offending the petitioners, and that, although in conference the church had agreed that a lodge might use the church on the third Sundays, the defendant had rescinded that…