Berry v. Bruce

This suit was started March 11, 1946, for the purpose of obtaining equitable relief by way of an injunction and an accounting. The defendant Bruce was the pastor of the Olivet Missionary Baptist Church, located in the city of Detroit, and the other defendants were officials of the church. Plaintiffs alleged in their bill of complaint that they were members of said church; that it had formerly existed as a corporation; that, through the carelessness and negligence of the defendants, the corporate charter had been lost on August 31,1944, because of the failure to file an annual report; that the…