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TRUSTEES OF PENINSULA ANNUAL CONFERENCE v. SPENCER

183 A.2d 588 (1962)

TRUSTEES OF the PENINSULA ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF the METHODIST CHURCH, INC., a Religious Corporation of the State of Delaware, Plaintiff, v. Raymond SPENCER, James B. Parsons, Harvey Wells, George Postles, Ralton Webb, Trustees of the Grace Methodist Church, Milton, Delaware, a Religious Corporation of the State of Delaware, Successors to Trustees of the Milton Methodist Protestant Church, Milton, Delaware, a Religious Corporation of the State of Delaware, now operating under the name of Grace Church, Defendants, Graham Dill, James T. Carey, Ernest Jefferson, William H. Welch and W. Howard Carey, Intervenors.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, Sussex.

July 18, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Tunnell and John E. Messick, of Tunnell & Raysor, Georgetown, for plaintiff.

Russell J. Willard, Jr., of Hastings, Taylor & Willard, Wilmington, for defendants.

Herman C. Brown and Grover C. Brown of Brown & Brown, Dover, for intervenors.

SEITZ, Chancellor.

This is the decision on a motion to intervene in this action by certain members of the congregation of the Grace Methodist Church of Milton, Delaware.

The facts and circumstances under which this motion arises are as follows: There exists in the United States a national church known as The Methodist Church. The Church is organized on the presbyteral system of church government with each local church or congregation irrevocably connected...

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