First Protestant Reformed Church v. DeWolf

This case comes here through an appeal by the defendant Hubert DeWolf and several •other individuals who are in accord with his claims, seeking to set aside a decree of the superior court of Grand Rapids which holds that the legal and only board of directors of the plaintiff First Protestant Reformed Church of Grand Rapids, a Michigan -ecclesiastical corporation, is the consistory of said •church of which one Herman Hoeksema is president and one Gerrit Stadt is clerk. Hereinafter, for brevity and clarity, the plaintiff may, on occasion, be referred to as the Hoeksema church, and the…