Rush v. Yancey

Jim Johnson, Associate Justice.

This case arises from a dispute between two groups in the Pleasant Bidge Baptist Church in Izard County. This Church is congregational in its method of church government and the disagreement arose because of divergent beliefs concerning pulpit affiliations.

Appellees filed their complaint in the Chancery Court of Izard County, alleging they were the duly elected and qualified trustees and deacons and that they represented the members of the legal and majority faction of the Pleasant Bidge Missionary Baptist Church and were duly authorized by this group or faction…