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TEA v. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, ETC.

No. 11378.

610 P.2d 182 (1980)

The Reverend Clark A. TEA, Jr. et al., Appellants, v. The PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN the DIOCESE OF NEVADA, a corporation, and The Right Reverend Wesley Frensdorff, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

April 30, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin, Bixler & Damus, Chtd., and George E. Franklin, Las Vegas, for appellants.

Alvin N. Wartman, Las Vegas, and Samuel B. Francovich, Reno, for respondents.

OPINION

MOWBRAY, Chief Justice:

This is a declaratory judgment action to determine title to church property. The trial court concluded that respondents, the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada and the Bishop of Nevada, had the right to control property held in the name of a local church and therefore decreed that respondents were entitled to possession of the property. This appeal followed; we affirm.

The real property in question is the church of St. Christopher...

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