Windham v. Ulmer

Citations

• 102 Miss. 491
• 59 So. 810

Syllabus

<p>1. Religious Societies. Ecclesiastical questions. Determination.</p> <p>The civil courts exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction. It accepts what the highest ecclesiastical authority in each church promulgates as the faith and practice of that church.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>Where the members of a church in conference, having full authority-under the polity of such church, by resolution properly presented and adopted, decided that one of two factions of its members was entitled to the use and occupancy of a church building, the civil courts will accept such decision as final until duly annulled by said church.</p>