Brown v. Divine

This motion for the appointment of a receiver of the rents, issues and profits of real property, and of the rents, income and profits of rooming and boarding houses and of the businesses themselves, presents an unprecedented situation.

The plaintiff, Verinda Brown, who sues on behalf of herself and all other members or former members of the Father Divine Peace Mission similarly situated, in her affidavit supporting the motion alleges that she is a colored, middle-aged, married woman with only a slight schooling, by occupation a domestic and fervently religious. She makes the following…