Los Angeles Holiness Band v. Spires
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County and from orders refusing a new trial and to strike out portions of a cost bill. Lucien Shaw, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtVan Dyke, J.
—This is an action to quiet title. The court below found the following facts: Prior to April, 1881, an association of persons were in the habit of meeting together for religious services in the city and county of Los Angeles, calling themselves the Los Angeles Holiness Band, and in April, 1881, six of the members of said Holiness Band signed and acknowledged articles of incorporation under the name of the Los Angeles Holiness Band, incorporating for religious and benevolent purposes. And in such articles of incorporation the six members who thus signed and acknowledged the same were chosen…
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