1. The Directors have consistently committed fraud on the tribunals before which
they appeared by presenting themselves as the legitimate Board of Directors and Trustees
under the 1892 Deed of Trust, whereas they are actually an illegitimate and fraudulently
perpetrated five-member ecclesiastical Board.
2. The Directors have manipulated
evidence and colluded with ostensible adversaries to withhold probative evidence
of the actual organization. In this matter, the Directors have collected, over the
years, judicial determinations, founded on misinformation, to support their claims.
3.
Most recently, in Weaver v. Wood, the Directors presented themselves as the
supreme hierarchical authority of the Christian Science movement. The parties, moreover,
agreed at the outset that specific Church documents, the Manual and Deeds of Trust
of 1892 and 1898, governed their controversy.
4. The parties decided in advance
of a trial to limit any inquiry into Church organizational structure to the parameters
of these three documents, thus precluding the courts from delving into related instruments,
such as the 1903 and 1904 Deeds of Trust, judicial consideration of which would have
elucidated the issues and aided a correct understanding of Church polity.
5.
The fact that the parties concurred in concealing probative evidence suggests a secret
"understanding" or agreement between purported adversaries as collusion.
6.
Ostensible opponents collude in order to defraud and individual or to obtain an illegal
objective.
7. In Weaver v. Wood, one objective of the parties was to renew
the judicial imprimatur on a fraudulently perpetrated organizational structure.
Their fraud was on the Superior Court, the appeals Court, and finally the Massachusetts
Supreme Judicial Court. The parties were misleading the courts.
8. The parties
were successful in that the Weaver court reiterated in dicta the earlier erroneous conclusions
of the Eustace court that the entire management of the Church passed into the Directors.s hands
at Mrs. Eddy passing.
9. The main reason for this error is that, due to the
parties. agreement to sanitize evidence, the Court did not have before it all
necessary documents.
10. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has found
.fraud on the court. where a party tampers with the fair administration of justice
by deceiving institutions set up to protect and safeguard the public, or otherwise
abuses or undermines the integrity of the judicial process.
11. The Plaintiff
must show through clear and convincing evidence that the fraudulent conduct is
part of a pattern or scheme to defraud.
12. The parties in Weaver were undoubtedly
aware of discrepancies between the requirements of Church foundational documents
and actual Church polity, due to the publicity such inconsistencies had recently
received in books and papers circulated within the Christian Science field.
13.
The parties decided to limit the trial court.s consideration of Church documents
to those which supported the current organization, rather than to include the
related instruments that would have revealed an entirely different structure contemplated
by Mary Baker G. Eddy. This manipulation of documentary evidence to legitimize
a false Church organization misled the Court and thus undermined the integrity
of the judicial process.
14. The five-member Board of Directors also committed
a fraud on the courts in 1913 by representing themselves to a New Hampshire Probate
Court as the four-member Board of Directors under the 1892 Deed of Trust in order
to be declared the Trustees under Mrs. Eddy.s Will.
15. The 1913 Directors
were actually a fraudulently perpetuated temporary Board that had been created
by Mrs. Eddy to manage Mother Church business only during her lifetime.
16.
The residue of Mrs. Eddy.s estate was not left to the Trustees under the Will of
Mary Baker Eddy, but to The First Church of Christ, Scientist under the direction
of the four-member Board of Trustee/ Directors.
17. After consolidating
her plan, as embodied in the 1903 and 1904 Deed of Trust and the Manual, to decentralize
the Christian Science movement, Mrs. Eddy also amended her Will by codicil which
hanged the residuary legatee from the Mother Church to The First Church of Christ,
Scientist.
18. The Directors kept this fact from the Probate Court, so the
Court remained unaware of any distinction between the residuary legatee of the
Codicil and the residuary legatee of the Will.