State ex rel. Coates v. Parchman

BARRETT, Commissioner.

The relators are the pastor, members of the board of deacons and the board of trustees of the St. Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. The appellant, Leftwich Parchman, is a former member of the board of trustees and a defendant in one or more suits pending in the circuit court and the St. Louis Court of Appeals in which the relators are plaintiffs. The other appellants, Witherspoon and Lynch, are counsel for Parchman. In this particular phase of the litigation, alleging that they have violated an injunction issued in one of the principal suits, the relators have cited…