FIRST PROTESTANT REFORMED CHURCH v. DeWOLF

Docket No. 39, Calendar No. 46,659.

344 Mich. 624 (1956)

75 N.W.2d 19

FIRST PROTESTANT REFORMED CHURCH v. DeWOLF.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 1, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Tubbs, for plaintiff.

Linsey, Shivel, Phelps & Vander Wal (John H. Vander Wal and Jay W. Linsey, of counsel), for defendants.


BOYLES, J.

This case comes here through an appeal by the defendant Hubert DeWolf and several other individuals who are in accord with his claims, seeking to set aside a decree of the superior court of Grand Rapids which holds that the legal and only board of directors of the plaintiff First Protestant Reformed Church of Grand Rapids, a Michigan ecclesiastical corporation, is the consistory of said church of which one Herman Hoeksema is president and one Gerrit Stadt...

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