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CONGREGATIONAL CH. OF CHICOPEE FALLS v. ATTORNEY GEN.

376 Mass. 545 (1978)

381 N.E.2d 1305

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF CHICOPEE FALLS vs. ATTORNEY GENERAL; VALLEY BANK and TRUST COMPANY, trustee, intervener.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

November 2, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Caroline W. Spangenberg (Francis D. Dibble, Jr., with her) for Valley Bank and Trust Company, trustee.

Mary Joann Reedy, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, & LIACOS, JJ.

KAPLAN, J.

Having lost many of its members, sold its building to the Chicopee Redevelopment Authority, and failed in trying to find another site or to arrange a merger with another church, the Congregational Church of Chicopee Falls, a corporation, determined by vote of its members to seek dissolution, with the plan to transfer its trust funds to the First Congregational Church of Chicopee, and to distribute its other funds to that church and three

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