Ackley v. Irwin

The plaintiff is the rector of St. Andrew’s Church of Brooklyn, a religious corporation. Ecclesiastically, S't. Andrew’s Church is a congregation or religious body in affiliation with and constitutionally a part of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, and is subject to the constitution and canons of said church and of the diocese of Long Island.

The defendants -are a majority of the members of the vestry of the said religious corporation. They have assumed, by resolution at a meeting of the vestry (the determination of the question of the regularity of which is not…