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PRESBYTERY OF THE COVENANT v. 1st PRES. CHURCH OF PARIS, INC.

No. 8438.

552 S.W.2d 865 (1977)

PRESBYTERY OF THE COVENANT et al., Appellants, v. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH of PARIS, INC., et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

Rehearing Denied July 5, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Stuber, Smith, Smith, Dunlap & Canterbury, Dallas, for appellants.

Hardy Moore, Paris, J. D. McLaughlin, Fisher, McLaughlin & Harrison, Paris, for appellees.

CORNELIUS, Justice.

This controversy arose when a majority of the members of the First Presbyterian Church of Paris, Texas, sought to withdraw from the Presbyterian Church in the United States and affiliate with another group. The Presbytery of the Covenant, which had jurisdiction of the church at Paris, sought to prevent the withdrawing faction from taking possession and asserting ownership of the church property, and filed suit for declaratory judgment. The withdrawing...

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