Mitterhausen v. South Wisconsin Conference Ass'n of the Seventh-Day Adventists

Plaintiff is a licensed architect. The Milwaukee English Seventh-Day Adventist church is an unincorporated religious organization holding services in the city of Milwaukee. The individual defendants are members of the board of trustees of that church. The South Wisconsin Conference Association of the Seventh-Day Adventists is a corporation having certain supervisory powers over individual congregations of the church. Desiring to build a church building, the Milwaukee congregation instructed its trustees to investigate the feasibility of building a church for $40,000 or less. Plaintiff was…