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NEW YORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE v. FISHER

182 Conn. 272 (1980)

NEW YORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ET AL. v. EVERETT FISHER ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released August 19, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Stapleton, with whom was Allan B. Taylor, for the appellants-appellees (plaintiffs).

James R. Fogarty, with whom, on the brief, were Robert A. Epstein and James J. Huron, for the appellees-appellants (named defendant et al.).

COTTER, C. J., BOGDANSKI, PETERS, HEALEY and PARSKEY, JS.

PETERS, J.

This case involves a dispute over the ownership of church property arising out of a disagreement about the withdrawal of a local church from its prior affiliation with a hierarchical church organization.

New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church and its resident bishop, W. Ralph Ward, Jr., brought this action against the Round Hill Community Church, Inc., of Greenwich and six individual...

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