Shavers v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““It is contended by appellants that they were the sole trustees and that the appellee trustees were usurpers. The bill was drawn upon the theory that appellants, as trustees, were vested with the legal control and management of the church property instead of the appellee trustees, and it sought to restrain appellees from pretending that they were trustees of the church. The title to the office of trustee is here only collaterally involved. The appellee trustees had been de facto elected to a corporate office, had accepted the same, entered upon the performance of their duties and were in the possession of the property. An information in the nature of quo warranto will lie against one who intrudes himself into the office of trustee of a church corporation, and his title to the office cannot be decided in a collateral suit but can only be decided in a direct proceeding.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People ex rel. Michajlowski v. Tanaschuk