Dyer

The plaintiff had judgment in an action to cancel a contract of employment of the defendant as pastor of the above-named church, from which judgment the defendant appeals.

The record shows that pursuant to a vote of the members of said church the plaintiff and defendant, on the twenty-eighth day of July, 1925, entered into an agreement whereby the plaintiff retained the services of the defendant as pastor of the Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church, for the period of ten years succeeding, at a salary of $7,500 per year. The complaint sets forth a number of grounds for the cancellation of the agreement just mentioned, and also that the board of trustees of the plaintiff, prior to the beginning of this action, passed a resolution purporting to cancel said agreement and to dispense with the services of the defendant as pastor of said church. The prayer of the complaint is to the effect that if said resolution be held ineffective, that the agreement be canceled for the reasons set forth therein. A supplemental and amended complaint was also filed in the action setting forth additional grounds for the cancellation of the agreement.

The action is brought to us upon the…