PAPE v. INGRAM

No. 6604.

363 P.2d 1029 (1961)

69 N.M. 32

Rev. Raymond A. PAPE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Henry INGRAM and Leonard Talley, Elders of the East Second Street Church of Christ of Portales, New Mexico, an unincorporated, independent association, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

August 3, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mears & Mears, Fred Boone, Portales, for appellants.

Wesley Quinn, Morris Stagner, Clovis, for appellee.


BRAND, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a preacher, brought suit against the two surviving members of the Board of Elders of the Church of Christ at Portales, the third member having died, for damages of $12,800 for loss of wages and use of parsonage, expense of moving, damage to reputation, for malicious statements made against him and humiliation heaped upon him. He alleged that he had been hired for a two-year term as minister of the church and was to be paid $90 per...

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