PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH v. BARKER

Docket No. 59019.

115 Cal.App.3d 599 (1981)

171 Cal. Rptr. 541

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. JOHN D. BARKER et al., Defendants and Appellants

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

January 30, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Frederick A. Morgan, Robert J. Stumpf, Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, Stephens, Martin, Berg & Lasater, R. Wicks Stephens II and Robert B. Leck III for Defendants and Appellants.

O'Melveny & Myers, R. Bradbury Clark, John G. Niles, Franklin A. Gevurtz, Windels, Marx, Davies & Ives and Kenneth W. Greenawalt for Plaintiffs and Respondents.


OPINION

FLEMING, J.

The question: Do four Los Angeles churches which have seceded from their regional and national affiliation lose title to church property held in their own names? Yes, say the general church organizations with which the local churches have been heretofore affiliated. No, say the seceding local church organizations which hold title.

This litigation arose as a result of a doctrinal controversy within the general...

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