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LAWRENCE v. STEPHENSON

No. 68SC204.

162 S.E.2d 105 (1968)

1 N.C. App. 600

S. F. LAWRENCE, Leon Harper and James S. Collins, Trustees, and J. C. Collins, Clerk, Officers of the True Congregation of Angier Primitive Baptist Church, and the S. L. Lawrence Group and Others United in Interest Constituting the True Congregation of Angier Primitive Baptist Church v. T. H. STEPHENSON and M. E. Fish, Purported Trustees, M. E. Fish, Purported Clerk, and L. B. Clayton and M. E. Fish, Purported Deacons of the Angier Primitive Baptist Church, and the Joel T. Lewis Faction Purporting to be the Congregation of Angier Primitive Baptist Church.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 10, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Boyce, Lake & Burns, by Eugene Boyce, Raleigh, for plaintiffs appellees.

W. A. Johnson, Lillington, for defendants appellants.

CAMPBELL, Judge.

It is well recognized that the legal or temporal tribunals of this State have no jurisdiction over, and no concern with, purely ecclesiastical questions and controversies, for there is a constitutional guarantee of freedom of religious profession and worship, as well as an equally firmly established separation of church and State. The courts do have jurisdiction as to civil contract and property rights which are involved in, or arise from, a church...

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