GRAHAM v. LOCKHART

No. 7825DC940.

256 S.E.2d 518 (1979)

42 N.C. App. 377

Wilbur P. GRAHAM, Mason R. Coulter, Grover D. Coulter, Harold H. Shuford, Charles A. Coulter v. Rufus N. LOCKHART and John H. Miles.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 17, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith & Smith by Young M. Smith, Jr., Hickory, for plaintiffs-appellees.

J. Bryan Elliott, Hickory, for defendants-appellants.


WEBB, Judge.

We note at the outset that matters of church doctrine are not involved in this case. The only issue is whether the defendant Lockhart has been properly dismissed as pastor and member by a church which is congregational in form. The defendants advance several reasons as to why summary judgment should not have been entered. They contend first that their affidavits show that it was the custom in the church that the meetings be called by the pastor. The meetings...

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