SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION OF AFRICAN M. E. CHURCH v. WALDEN

Nos. 8841, 8952, No. 8953.

121 F.2d 719 (1941)

SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION OF AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH et al. v. WALDEN et al. (two cases). WALDEN et al. v. SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION OF AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

June 25, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert Williams and Z. Alexander Looby, both of Nashville, Tenn. (Z. Alexander Looby, Joe Brown Cummings, and Albert Williams, all of Nashville, Tenn., on the brief), for Sunday School Union, etc.

Fyke Farmer, of Nashville, Tenn. (Allers & Cochran, of Baltimore, Md., Herbert L. Dudley, of Detroit, Mich., and Farmer, Denney & Leftwich, of Nashville, Tenn., on the brief), for Harvey E. Walden and others.

Before ALLEN, HAMILTON, and MARTIN, Circuit Judges.


ALLEN, Circuit Judge.

This is a class suit brought by three residents of Baltimore, Maryland, two pastors and a lay member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (hereinafter called the A. M. E. Church), a religious association, against the Sunday School Union of the A. M. E. Church (hereinafter called the Union), a corporation chartered under the laws of Tennessee, Ira T. Bryant, secretary-treasurer of the Union, a citizen of Tennessee, and others. The petition...

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