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CLEAVER v. CONFERENCE OF AFRICAN UNION FIRST COLORED METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH

No. 13135.

240 F.2d 57 (1956)

Walter C. CLEAVER et al., Appellants, v. The CONFERENCE OF AFRICAN UNION FIRST COLORED METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH, a corporation, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 31, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George B. Parks, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Henry Lincoln Johnson was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Louis L. Redding, of the bar of the Supreme Court of Delaware, pro hac vice by special leave of court, Wilmington, Del., with whom Mr. John H. Wilson, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellees.

Before WASHINGTON, BASTIAN and BURGER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court directing the defendants (appellants) to cease to use a certain church property in the District of Columbia in any manner inconsistent with or for any purposes other than the purposes of the corporate appellee, the general and governing religious organization. The trial court held that the appellant corporation was a subordinate member, and that it had seceded from the general and governing...

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