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LATIN AMERICAN COUNCIL OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES v. LEAL

No. 5561.

260 P.2d 697 (1953)

57 N.M. 502

LATIN AMERICAN COUNCIL OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES v. LEAL et al.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

August 13, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin Mechem, J.D. Weir and L.J. Maveety, Las Cruces, for appellants.

W.A. Sutherland, W.C. Whatley, W.B. Darden and LaFel E. Oman, Las Cruces, for appellee.

McGHEE, Justice.

This case arises out of internal dissension between certain members of a local church congregation and the parent or general church with which the local church is affiliated. The plaintiff, being the general church, brought action in ejectment in which the issue was whether the plaintiff had the right to possession of the local church property, or whether a faction of the local congregation could renounce their affiliation with plaintiff and assume...

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