holding that the trial court had jurisdiction for the limited purpose of determining whether the appropriate authority in the church had terminated the plaintiffs membership and stating: “As these proceedings go forward, the trial court should focus its 'inquiry on whether ‘the* expulsion was the act of the authority within the church having the power to order it.’ ”
How later courts described this case
- holding that the trial court had jurisdiction for the limited purpose of determining whether the appropriate authority in the church had terminated the plaintiffs membership and stating: “As these proceedings go forward, the trial court should focus its 'inquiry on whether ‘the* expulsion was the act of the authority within the church having the power to order it.’ ”
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The opinion
On Application for Rehearing
SMITH, Justice.
APPLICATION OVERRULED.
COBB, C.J., and SEE, LYONS, WOODALL, STUART, BOLIN, and MURDOCK, JJ., concur.
PARKER, J., concurs specially.