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GREEN v. LEWIS

Record No. 781388.

272 S.E.2d 181 (1980)

Wesley J. GREEN, Pastor, et al. v. Timothy LEWIS et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 26, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David T. Balfour, Richmond (Maloney, Yeatts, Balfour, Ayers & Barr, Richmond, on brief), for appellants.

Lawrence D. Diehl, Petersburg (Spero & Diehl, Petersburg, on brief), for appellees.

Before I'ANSON, C. J., and CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON and THOMPSON, JJ.

HARRISON, Justice.

We review an order of the lower court resolving a dispute between the congregation of Lee Chapel, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (A.M.E. Zion Church) on the one part and the general church on the other.1 The court found that the general church had failed to establish that it had a proprietary interest in the property of Lee Chapel and decreed that the trustees of the local congregation and the congregation should...

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