Fuchs v. Meisel
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Bay. (Maxwell, J'.) Bill for injunction. Complainants appeal from decree sustaining demurrer. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
The bill in this case contains, in substance, the following averments:
The Evangelical Association of North America is a. religious denomination organized about 1800, under the “ eonnectional” or “associated” form of church government, founded upon that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and having a system of graded executivé, legislative, and judicial ecclesiastical bodies and officers, and a code of rules known as the “Discipline.” The territory covered by said denomination is divided into “Annual Conference Districts,” in each of which is held a yearly meeting of the preachers of the…
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