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SIMS v. GREENE

Nos. 9486, 9529.

166 F.2d 1010 (1948)

SIMS v. GREENE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided February 4, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter A. Gay, Jr., of Philadelphia, Pa., for Sims.

C. Russell Phillips, of Philadelphia, Pa., for Greene.

Before MARIS, McLAUGHLIN, and KALODNER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

This suit was instituted by the plaintiff in the district court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania to enjoin the defendant from interfering with the plaintiff as presiding bishop of the First Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The defense was that the plaintiff was no longer a bishop since at an extra session of the General Conference of the Church held at Little Rock, Arkansas, on November 21, 1946, he had been expelled...

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