Sunday School Union of African Methodist Episcopal Church v. Walden

ALLEN, Circuit Judge.

This is a class suit brought by three residents of Baltimore, Maryland, two pastors and a lay member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (hereinafter called the A. M. E. Church), a religious association, against the Sunday School Union of the A. M. E. Church (hereinafter called the Union), a corporation chartered under the laws of Tennessee, Ira T. Bryant, secretary-treasurer of the Union, a citizen of Tennessee, and others. The petition seeks a declaratory judgment as to the ownership and control of certain real and personal property valued at over $200,000,…