Michigan Congregational Conference v. United Church

I am unable to concur with Mr. Chief Justice Reid in reversal, although I am of the opinion that the decree of the trial court ought, in certain particulars, to be modified.

It is the well-established law of this State, declared in Fuchs v. Meisel, 102 Mich 357 (32 LRA 92); Borgman v. Bultema, 213 Mich 684; Hanna v. Malick, 223 Mich 100; and United Armenian Brethren Evangelical Church v. Kazanjian, 322 Mich 651, that while members of a church undoubtedly possess the legal right to withdraw from it, with or without reason, they may not, in'so doing, take with them, for their own purposes, or…