AFRICAN METH. EPIS. CH. v. ST. PAUL METH. CH. OF SELMONT

SC 1376.

329 So.2d 542 (1976)

AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, a corp. v. ST. PAUL METHODIST CHURCH OF SELMONT, a corp.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

March 19, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chestnut, Sanders & Sanders, Selma, for appellant.

Gamble & Gamble, Selma, for appellee.


MADDOX, Justice.

The question presented is the propriety of the circuit judge's granting summary judgment in a contest between two religious groups over the ownership of church property.

African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America, a national religious organization, and St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, Selma, Alabama, an unincorporated local congregation affiliated with the national organization, brought suit against St....

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