STATE v. CLEVENGER

No. 6838.

364 P.2d 128 (1961)

69 N.M. 64

STATE of New Mexico ex rel. W.B. WHITE, Ulman Davis and Dorothy Swanner, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Helen CLEVENGER, Florence G. Cole, Joseph Overy, Edwin L. Cole and Helen LaRue, and God's House of Prayer, Inc., a corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

August 15, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl E. Hartley, Atty. Gen., Boston E. Witt and Norman S. Thayer, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellees.

Rowley, Davis Hammond & Murphy, Clovis, Williams, Johnson & Houston, Hobbs, for appellants.


NOBLE, Justice.

An action was commenced in the district court of Lea County by W.B. White, Ulman Davis, and Dorothy Swanner to remove the individual defendants as directors of a corporation known as God's House of Prayer, Inc., a non-profit corporation organized under the statute authorizing the incorporation of non-profit corporations for religious, benevolent and charitable purposes. Its principal purposes are to maintain a place or places of worship and of residence...

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