Rike v. Floyd
Ohio Circuit Courts
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County. David L. Nike, John A. Shauck, Bennett F. Witt, David W. Crider, C. I. B. Brane, Samuel Mills, George F. Deal,. George Miller, and J. S. Mills, bring their action against Halleck Floyd, Lewis Davis, George Horine, C. S. Miller, Aaron Zehring, J. A. Brown, C. H. Kiracofe, and Milton Wright, alleging that the plaintiffs are the legally elected and qualified trustees of the “ Printing Establishment of the • United!…
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County. David L. Nike, John A. Shauck, Bennett F. Witt, David W. Crider, C. I. B. Brane, Samuel Mills, George F. Deal,. George Miller, and J. S. Mills, bring their action against Halleck Floyd, Lewis Davis, George Horine, C. S. Miller, Aaron Zehring, J. A. Brown, C. H. Kiracofe, and Milton Wright, alleging that the plaintiffs are the legally elected and qualified trustees of the “ Printing Establishment of the • United! Brethren in Christ,” a corporation duly organized and created under and by virtue of the laws of the state of Ohio ; that…
1Opinion of the CourtSheabeb, J.
Under the issues presented by the above quoted pleadings a large amount of testimony, oral and documentary, has been introduced ; and without entering into an analysis of the evidence, we, in compliance with the request of counsel, state our conclusions of fact found, separately from our ■conclusions of law, as follows :
That at the commencement of this action the Church of the United Brethren in Christ was a duly organized religious soci*97ety in the United States, governed by official boards, quarterly conferences, Annual Conferences, and a General Conference, the latter being the supreme…
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