Schaad v. Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Ass'n of United Methodist Church

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Confokd, P. J. A. D.,

temporarily assigned. The principal adversaries in this litigation are plaintiffs-respondents *241Robert E. Schaad and his closely held small corporation, Ocean Grove News Service,1 on the one hand, and the defendant-appellant Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association of the United Methodist Church2 (hereafter “Ocean Grove” or “defendant”), on the other. As will be seen, the latter exercises, by force of statute, certain police and licensing regulatory powers similar to those of a municipality. Since enforcement of two of its police…