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BERKAW v. MAYFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Calendar No. 8, Docket No. 51,283.

378 Mich. 239 (1966)

144 N.W.2d 444

BERKAW v. MAYFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Certiorari denied January 23, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beaumont, Smith & Harris (Alfred E. Lindbloom, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Dykema, Wheat, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg (H. Gordon Wood and Laurence D. Connor, of counsel), for defendant.

Amici Curiae:

Thomas G. Long, Edmund E. Shepherd, and Edward M. Sharpe.

Hubbard, Fox, Thomas & Born (Allison K. Thomas, of counsel), for Michigan Conference of the United Church of Christ.

Certiorari denied by Supreme Court of the United States January 23, 1967.

SMITH, J.

This suit is the result of a split vote in the Mayflower Congregational Church of Detroit (253 for and 204 against) over whether to become affiliated with the United Church of Christ, a relatively new denomination formed in recent years by a merger of the Evangelical and Reformed Church and a large number of assenting member churches...

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