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- Title: Huber v. Thorn
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 05, 1962
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 51 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This appeal involves a most regrettable schism in the First
Baptist Church in Wichita. The appellants who were the plaintiffs
below all being members of the church brought an injunction suit
against other members of the church who had prevailed at two
church meetings. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants were bound
upon a course leading to a departure from the historical customs
and tenets of the First Baptist Church in Wichita in that
defendants had voted to withdraw from the national American
Baptist Convention and from the co-operating Kansas Baptist
Convention and the Wichita Association of Baptist churches. Plaintiffs alleged that they being the members of the church
who were still true to the tenets and customs of the church were
entitled to claim the property of the church as against the
defendants who were departing from the tenets and customs, and
claimed that if defendants persisted in the wrongful course,
plaintiffs be declared to be the sole owners of the church
property. The property is said to be worth some two million
dollars above existing indebtedness, so that the importance of
this case is not to be gainsaid.