Decision Number 94

Decision

It is the Decision of the Judicial Council that the expressions "of each
class" or "respective classes" as used in the Articles of Paragraph 901 quoted above refer to Ministerial and Lay members or Ministerial Alternates or Lay Alternates, and not to the class or classes of any particular year or years; and that in case of vacancy in the Ministerial membership on the Judicial Council the Ministerial Alternate first in order of election is entitled to fill such vacancy and that in case of a vacancy in the Lay membership on the Judicial Council, the Lay Alternate first in order of election is entitled to fill such vacancy.
It appearing from Paragraph 2115 of the "that Dr. L. Dorsey Spaugy was the first Ministerial Alternate "in order of election," it is clear that Dr. Spaugy was and is entitled to fill the vacancy on the Judicial Council caused by the death of Dr. Chas. B. Ketcham. Accordingly the calling by the President of the Council of Dr. Spaugy to membership upon the Judicial Council is in all things affirmed and approved.