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MD. & VA. CHURCHES v. SHARPSBURG CH.

No. 414.

396 U.S. 367 (1970)

MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA ELDERSHIP OF THE CHURCHES OF GOD ET AL. v. CHURCH OF GOD AT SHARPSBURG, INC., ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 19, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred L. Scanlan, James H. Booser, and Charles O. Fisher for appellants.

Arthur G. Lambert for appellees.

PER CURIAM.

In resolving a church property dispute between appellants, representing the General Eldership, and appellees, two secessionist congregations, the Maryland Court of Appeals relied upon provisions of state statutory law governing the holding of property by religious corporations,1 upon language in the deeds conveying the properties in question to the local church corporations, upon the terms of the charters of the corporations...

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