summary judgment on the basis of local church by-laws is appropriate only if their meaning is apparent
How later courts described this case
- summary judgment on the basis of local church by-laws is appropriate only if their meaning is apparent
- state law providing that “[t]he body which appoints a director may also remove a director”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
FLANIGAN, Judge,
concurring in part in result.
I concur in the result of that portion of the principal opinion which dismisses the appeal for lack of a final judgment. I refrain from expressing my views on the other portions of the principal opinion. “We know of nothing more futile in the law than a decision and opinion by a court in a cause whereof it has no jurisdiction.” Reichardt Motor Co. v. Standard Accident Ins. Co., 237 Mo.App. 902 , 179 S.W.2d 112, 114 (1944).