Wright v. Smith

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE CULBERTSON

delivered the opinion of the court.

This cause comes to this court on transfer from the Supreme Court after an original appeal to such court.

Plaintiffs filed an action in equity in 1950, seeking to have the circuit court of Marion county declare that the title to a church building and a parsonage in Salem, Illinois was vested solely in the twenty-six plaintiffs, to the exclusion of certain defendants, and also the other members (383), of the Christian Church at Salem, who were not made parties to the action. Plaintiffs are members of the Christian Church at…