Stony Island Church of Christ v. Stephens

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• no element of religion involved in deciding issue of church elders had authority to terminate pastor’s employment
• trial court’s order need not include findings of fact or conclusions of law
• court affirmed arbitrators' finding that Church of Christ elders had sole authority to terminate the minister's employment and that his employment had been properly terminated according to established church procedures
• trial court's order need not include findings of fact or conclu­sions of law
• church sued to remove minister from church premises and to restrain interference with church property; vacation of arbitration award concerning contractual dispute regarding termination of services and right to possession of church property not involving any element of religion
• “Orders of the circuit court need not include findings of fact or conclusions of law. [Citations.] On the contrary, we are obliged to extend all reasonable presumptions in favor of the judgment or order appealed from.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).