Perkins v. Monroe Avenue Church of Christ

OPINION

By SHERICK, PJ.

The original action, and decree entered thereon, from which both plaintiffs and defendants, Church and its Trustees, appeal, was to enjoin the Church from selling or conveying the premises over which the controversy rages to any person other than a Caucasian, and to evict one Lloyd L. Dickerson, the negro pastor of this church, therefrom, and to forbid the future occupancy and u'se of the premises, now occupied as the church parsonage by any person other than a Caucasian.

It is at once apparent that plaintiff’s complaint is twofold: the first involves ownership and future…