Jones v. Johnson

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Fulton

Affirming.

The petition in this action, filed by three persons as representatives of one of two factions of the Fountain Run Missionary Baptist Church against the appellees as representatives of the other faction, alleges that a schism arose in 1938 and that the church divided into two factions; that in 1939 the defendant faction took charge of the church and refused to allow the plaintiff faction to worship therein; that two of the three persons who were trustees at the time the schism occurred adopted an order on May 8, 1942, allotting the time each…