Mendes

Respondent-plaintiff, Festa Do Divino Esperito Santo de Manteca, a semi-religious association, filed its articles of incorporation in the office of the Secretary of State on April 17, 1925, and has since existed as a nonprofit corporation, with its principal place of business at Manteca, California, pursuant to the provisions of title 12, part. 4, division 1, of the Civil Code. Its corporate purposes, as set forth in its articles of incorporation, are to celebrate on proper days the Feast of the Divine Holy Ghost and the Feast of the Divine Holy Trinity and to perpetuate the precepts of the religion of its members, as practiced by their forefathers; to hold such real and personal property as the purposes of the corporation may require, and to that end lease, mortgage, hypothecate, sell and otherwise dispose of lands, tenements, hereditaments and personal property; to make by-laws for the management of its properties, and the regulation of its affairs, and its membership; to admit persons into membership, and to hold periodical or occasional conventions and general assemblies of both members and delegates.

The number of directors was fixed at five, and J. J. Machado, M. M.…