Crystal

The plaintiffs sued to quiet their alleged title to a certain parcel of land, together with a church building and a parsonage thereon, situated in the town of Vacaville. The defendants were given judgment and the plaintiffs have appealed.

For more than forty years before the commencement of the action there was in the town of Vacaville a congregation of the Christian Church, or Disciples of Christ, the two names being used synonymously. Three tenets of that church are material to the questions raised by the appeal and are as follows: 1. That immersion is the only authorized baptism; 2. That the Lord’s Supper should be observed on the first day of every week; 3. That the church government is congregational in form, every local congregation being strictly independent of all other ecclesiastical organizations and in no manner subject to control or supervision by any higher or superior church authority. On the fourteenth day of January, 1892, the land in dispute was conveyed to “J. R. Rogers and J. S. Cunningham, . . . trustees of the Christian Church of Vacaville, the parties of the second part, ... to have and to hold . . . unto the said party of the second part, and to their…