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Show DISMISSES SUIT BROUGHT AGAINST CHURCH DIRECTORATE Boston. Mass Nov. 22 The supreme su-preme court today handed down its decision in the litigation concerning governing boards of the Christian Science ehurcti and its publications. It held that the directors of the First Church of Christ ScienHst, of Boston Bos-ton (the mother church) have the power to remove a member of the board of trustees of the Christian Science Publishing society. It dismissed dis-missed the bill brought by the trus-j trus-j tees to prevent directors from interfering inter-fering with the affairs of the society. The decision in other respects confirmed the report of Judge Fred- erick Dodge, who sat as master in I the controversy, except that it made no ruling on the question whether John V. Dittemore, removed as a director di-rector by his fellow members, or Mrs Annie M. Knott, eleded to succeed him. was a director legally. The latter lat-ter question was declared to be at issue in a separate suit. Exceptions to the master's report taken by Mrs. Emllie B. Hulen of Brooklyn. N. Y. |