Bomar

The second amended complaint filed in this cause sets forth that the plaintiffs are the duly elected, qualified, and acting trustees of the Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church, an unincorporated religious association having its principal place of worship at number 3064 East First Street, in the city and county of Los Angeles; that the membership of said church consists of ninety-two persons, of whom seventy-one are adults; that the association was organized and founded on or about the year 1909; that at the time of its organization it was agreed that Hiscox’s Guide and Directory for Baptist Churches should be, and the same was, adopted as the rules by which the temporal affairs of the church should be guided; that since the organization of the church herein referred to, it has been governed as an unincorporated religious association in conformity with the rules and regulations set forth in Hiscox’s Guide; that the rules and regulations set forth in said Guide provide that the property of the church shall be held in the name of trustees, for the uses and benefit of the church; that on or about the eleventh day of April, 1916, said unincorporated religious association acquired…