Patterson v. Baptist Church

STATEMENT OF THE CASE.

REYNOLDS, J.

Plaintiff, Wash Patterson, seeks a personal judgment against Mount Zion Baptist Church, an unincorporated religious society, on six promissory notes aggregating, exclusive of interest, $316.50, drawn payable to maker’s order and by the maker endorsed in blank, and for recognition of a conventional mortgage on the society’s house of worship given to secure payment of the notes.

The notes are signed and endorsed “Board of Trustees, Mount Zion Baptist Church, by E. M. Harris, Secretary-Treasurer,” and the mortgage also is signed “Mount Zion Baptist Church, by E.…