People ex rel. Wilson v. African Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, Wayman D. P. Wilson, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 18th day of March, 1913.
1Opinion of the Court
Burr, J.:
Upon a petition signed by him, but not verified, and on three accompanying affidavits, relator gave notice to respondent that he would apply at a Special Term of the Supreme Court for an alternative writ of mandamus requiring The African Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church and its pastor to call a corporate meeting of all of the members of said church for the purpose of electing trustees of said'corporation to succeed those whose terms of office expired January 6, 1913, and for such other and further relief as may be just. Upon the date specified in said notice respondent appeared…
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