Murphy v. Hope

Jordan, Justice.

Terrell Murphy initiated a class action as a member of a class consisting of the congregation of the First Baptist Church on New Street in Macon, alleging that the defendant, Julius Caesar Hope, was holding himself out as pastor of the congregation, although in fact he had not been elected by the congregation; that he does not visit the sick and infirm but always has his "hand in the till for himself and his wife”; that he invites other speakers to the church and that his wife charges the church room and board for such visiting speakers; that he has used the building fund to…