Keeler v. Evangelical Emanuel's Church of Hales Corners

The plaintiffs are members and a part of a faction of the membership of the defendant corporation. The individual defendants are the pastor, trustees, and officers of the corporation. The word “church” will be hereinafter used as meaning the corporation.

*245It appears from the complaint that the pastor of the church was for some reason not stated dismissed in December, 1937, from membership in the Evangelical Synod of North America; that he “is not now affiliated with any denominational group,” and that “the religious services now conducted by him” in the church “are not in accordance with the…