THE OHIO NISI PRIUS REPORTS NEW SERIES. VOLUME XXII. BEING REPORTS OF CASES DECIDED BY THE SUPERIOR, COMMON PLEAS, PROBATE AND VINTON R. SHEPARD, EDITOR. CINCINNATI: THE OHIO LAW REPORTER COMPANY. 1920. Ohio Nisi Prius Reports NEW SERIES-VOLUME XXII. Causes Argued and Determined in the Superior, Common Pleas, Probate and Insolvency Courts of Ohio. INTERFERENCE WITH CIVIL RIGHTS BY A RELIGIOUS BAN. Common Pleas Court of Holmes County. (Judge E. B. Kinkead of Franklin County, sitting by designation of the Chief Justice.) ELI J. GINERICH V. JONAS SWARTZENTRUBER AND SIX OTHERS. Decided, May, 1919. Unlawful "Miting" of a Church Member-Relief Available by Injunction when Civil Rights are being Interfered with-Boycott not Permissible as a Weapon for Enforcing Church Discipline-Religious Prac tices which Violate Civil Rights. 1. A church or religious organization is not at liberty, in furtherance of some peculiar belief or Biblical interpretation, to enforce a decree which interferes with civil rights; and where such an organization issues an order that one who has ceased to uphold its practices and has withdrawn from its communion shall be "mited," shunned or boycotted by the entire membership to the extent of refusing to trade with him, to employ him or be employed by him, or to eat with him or associate with him in any way, and this order is made to include members of his own family, injunction lies not only against enforcement of the order but by mandate directing that the |
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