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NAT. BAPTIST CONV., U.S.A., INC. v. TAYLOR

402 Pa. 501 (1961)

National Baptist Convention, United States of America, Inc. v. Taylor, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 4, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Isaiah W. Crippins, with him Almanina B. Carnes, for Taylor et al., defendants, appellants.

Samuel Dashiell, with him Lawrence Prattis, Calvin T. Wilson, Charles L. Durham, and Benjamin Hooks, of the Tennessee Bar, Joseph B. Williams, of the New York Bar, for Anderson, plaintiff, appellant.

A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., with him Austin Norris, Clifford Scott Green, and Norris, Green, Harris & Higginbotham, and Belford V. Lawson, of the Washington, D.C. Bar, and Benjamin F. Wilson, of the Indiana Bar, for appellees.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and EAGEN, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BOK, January 4, 1961:

These cases arise out of a convention of five thousand or more of plaintiff's membership that was held in Philadelphia, between September 6 and 11, 1960. Plaintiff is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the District of Columbia.

In the first case the complaint in equity, filed on September 9, averred that a small faction of the Convention, including the...

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