Opinion ID: 2209119
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Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Truehart, Gilliam, Emerson, and Kirksey

Text: Of the eleven surviving plaintiffs, four were not mentioned at all by the trial court in its order dismissing the complaint: Ruth Truehart, Nannie Gilliam, Jane Emerson, and Estelle Kirksey. According to an affidavit by one of the appellees, Reverend Trammell, dated October 19, 1984 (three weeks after the amended complaint was lodged with the court, along with a motion for leave to file it), these fouridentified by namewere considered members in good standing of the church. [6] Furthermore, counsel for appellees filed in October 1984 a Statement of Genuine Facts to Which There Is No Dispute, pursuant to Super.Ct.Civ.R. 12-I(k), to accompany a motion for summary judgment. That statement said that a search of the Church membership roll and financial records reveals that purported plaintiffs (amended complaint) Ruth Truehart, Nannie Gilliam, Jane Emerson, and Estelle Kirksey are in fact and, indeed, members of good standing of the Mount Jezreel Baptist Church. [7] Truehart herself said in an affidavit that she had been a member of the church since 1950 and a deaconess for more than twenty years, and Gilliam said in an affidavit that she had joined the church in 1959 and attended church regularly since that time. There appears to be no evidence at all that these four plaintiffs were not members of the church; consequently, they have standing to bring this suit, and the court's dismissal of the complaint as to them must be reversed.