Owen v. Board of Directors of Rosicrucian Fellowship

Juanita Owen and Grace Sawyer, as members of the Rosicrueian Fellowship, a church corporation, seek a writ of mandamus to compel the defendant members of the board of directors of the corporation to reinstate petitioners as members thereof and to permit them to examine the mailing list of membership of the corporation. The trial court rendered judgment denying plaintiffs’ petition and discharging the alternative writ of mandamus theretofore entered. Plaintiffs appeal from the judgment.

As stated in the pretrial order herein, petitioners contend that they were unlawfully expelled from…