# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S354
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854° °° . Appeal Matters

Report of Committee 20 B on the Appeal of the

English District from the Decision of the
Board of Appeals

in this matter under the restrictions laid down by the resolutions
of the 1941 convention, which read as follows: “When the Board:
of Appeals of Synod has acted and an appeal is made to Synod in
convention assembled, a committee of review consisting of two
pastors, two laymen, and one teacher, elected by Synod, - shall‘
determine whether error has been made in the procedure of the

Board of Appeals or new evidence has been produced. In either +
case the matter shall be remanded to the Board of Appeals for a.
new hearing. If this is not the case, Synod shall confirm the find-
ings of the Board of Appeals. This action shall be final, and no
further appeal shall be entertained by Synod.”

' Your Committee begs leave to render the following opinion and
decision: According to the regulations of Synod in such cases your
Committee is to be concerned only about two questions, First:
Whether there is any error in the procedure of the Board of
Appeals in this case. Secondly: Whether new evidence has been’
produced. Your Committee is not to pass on the merits of the
original case itself.

Your Committee finds no error in the procedure of the Board
of Appeals in this case, nor does it find any new evidence per-
taining to this case.

Your Committee therefore recommends that the decision of:
the Board of Appeals be sustained and confirmed.

ACTION

This report was discussed on the floor of Synod, but it was
finally resolved to adopt the following report of a special committee, -
headed by President Rippe of the Atlantic District, which covers .
this case: =
Wuergeas, Your Committee has. been appointed to take under *
advisement the suggestions made ‘by President Behnken ‘this’:
morning and has been instructed by this convention to embody
in a resolution certain proposals made by the venerable President’:
concerning all cases of appeal not yet adjudicated; and con
' Wuergas, This convention desires that consideration, love, and-':
charity be maintained in the conduct of all its business; and