Cohn v. Mt. Zion Baptist Church

The plaintiffs sought to foreclose three mortgages on property of the defendant church. Richard B. Harris was also a defendant but was defaulted. The church filed what amounted to a general denial and also filed a special defense alleging lack of authority in the signers to bind the defendant, that the transaction was out of the course of regular business and that no consideration moved to it. In reply the plaintiffs pleaded estoppel and ratification. Judgment was for the plaintiffs.

The finding is not attacked. The church, a Connecticut ecclesiastical corporation, owned a building in Norwalk…