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IN RE METROPOLITAN BAPTIST CHURCH OF RICHMOND, INC.

Docket No. 34194.

48 Cal.App.3d 850 (1975)

121 Cal. Rptr. 899

In re METROPOLITAN BAPTIST CHURCH OF RICHMOND, INC., in Voluntary Dissolution. METROPOLITAN BAPTIST CHURCH OF RICHMOND, INC., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. EVELLE J. YOUNGER, as Attorney General, etc., et al., Defendants and Respondents. FOOTHILL BOULEVARD BAPTIST CHURCH et al., Interveners and Respondents. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DUBLIN, Claimant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

June 4, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Colin Peters for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, and Carole Kornblum, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendant and Respondent Attorney General.

No appearance for other Respondents.

OPINION

ELKINGTON, J.

The Metropolitan Baptist Church of Richmond, Inc. (hereafter the "Church") was incorporated in 1956 as a California nonprofit corporation for religious and charitable purposes. It was a fundamental Baptist church, and like Baptist churches generally, it was autonomous, democratic and congregational. All decisions, ecclesiastical and temporal, were by majority vote of the individual adult members of the congregation...

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