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NEW MAGNOLIA BAPTIST CH., INC. v. ELLERKER

No. EE-266.

353 So.2d 204 (1977)

NEW MAGNOLIA BAPTIST CHURCH, INC. OF BRANFORD, Appellant, v. Frank ELLERKER, Cynthia Ellerker, and Elsie Birch, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied January 12, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Slaughter, II of Slaughter & Slaughter, Live Oak, for appellant.

John F. Roscow, III of Scruggs, Carmichael, Long, Tomlinson, Roscow, Pridgeon, Helpling & Young, Gainesville, for appellees.

PER CURIAM.

This case involves a dispute between two factions of a congregational, as distinguished from a hierarchical church. (See Baldwin v. Mills, 344 So.2d 259 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977) and cases therein cited) Although civil courts may not constitutionally delve into matters of an ecclesiastic nature they have the right, indeed the duty, of applying and enforcing sterile principles of property law. (Baldwin v. Mills,<...

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