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DOUGLASS v. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF FT. COLLINS

No. 17141.

287 P.2d 965 (1955)

Earl DOUGLASS, Ira E. Dickinson, Edwin F. Bowling, Richard A. Bradley, Ethel E. Herdener, Eleanor Hiner, Charles J. Lautenbach, Burton O. Longyear, Roy T. Smith and Harold V. Warden, Plaintiffs in Error, v. The FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF FT. COLLINS, Colorado, William P. Whittemore, James D. Brobeck, J. Donavan Forney, Oliver Hoburg, George N. Miller, E. Mack Spoon, Frank Ghent, Edward Nauta, Joseph L. Bunger, Isaac C. Bradley, Charles O. Henderson, Wilbur F. Rebell, Wendell E. Vance, Annie Brewer, William Venable, Gladys F. Askin, Frances Floth, and Mabel Dodson, Defendants in Error.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied October 10, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn L. Daly, Denver, for plaintiffs in error.

S. T. Anderson, Denver, for defendants in error.

HOLLAND, Justice.

This case presents an attempt by a small minority group of the members of The First Baptist Church of Fort Collins to have a civil court enjoin the majority of the membership from disaffiliating with the Northern Baptist Convention, an organization which came into existence about the year 1907, through which Baptist churches were afforded an opportunity to cooperate in the handling of missionary money. The church here involved was organized in 1879...

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