Huber v. Thorn

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Jackson, J.:

This appeal involves a most regrettable schism in the First Baptist Church in Wichita. The appellants who were the plaintiffs below all being members of the church brought an injunction suit against other members of the church who had prevailed at two church meetings. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants were bound upon a course leading to a departure from the historical customs and tenets of the First Baptist Church in Wichita in that defendants had voted to withdraw from the national American Baptist Convention and from the co-operating…