Peace v. First Christian Church of McGregor

KEY, Associate Justice.

Appellee brought suit and obtained a judgment for the property involved in this litigation. The defendants have appealed. The district judge filed the following findings of fact and conclusions of law:

“Findings of- .Fact. — First. I find that there has existed for many years in Texas and in other States of this country, a body of religious people calling themselves Disciples of Christ, or Christians, and known in the aggregate as the Christian Church, and existing in independent local churches, and having no ecclesiastical tribunal superior to the local church; said…