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GODBOLT v. CLINTON STREET GREATER BETHLEHEM TEMPLE

Docket No. 2,573.

15 Mich. App. 587 (1969)

167 N.W.2d 97

GODBOLT v. CLINTON STREET GREATER BETHLEHEM TEMPLE OF THE APOSTOLIC FAITH

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided January 30, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald David White (Verne K. Maxwell, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Nathaniel H. Goldstick, Edward Dobreff, and S. Allen Early (Paul J. Weiselberg, of counsel), for defendant.

LEVIN, J.

The trial judge granted the defendant's motion to dismiss at the conclusion of the plaintiff's proofs. We affirm for reasons we now state.

Bishop S.N. Hancock served the defendant, an ecclesiastical corporation, as its pastor from 1921 until his death on August 18, 1963. Plaintiffs assert that the by-laws of the church were not followed in the selection of Bishop Hancock's successor. Plaintiffs ask that an injunction issue prohibiting the present...

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