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DNR v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER CHURCH

Docket No. 55440.

114 Mich. App. 99 (1982)

318 N.W.2d 830

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER CHURCH OF DETROIT

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided March 4, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Frank J. Pipp and Russell E. Prins, Assistants Attorney General, for plaintiff.

Gregory E. Snow, for defendant.

Before: M.J. KELLY, P.J., and D.E. HOLBROOK, JR., and N.J. KAUFMAN, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff, the Department of Natural Resources, appeals a trial court decision dismissing its complaint for possession of land leased by its predecessor some 55 years ago to defendant board of church trustees.

In August, 1925, John Baird, director of the Department of Conservation (DOC), entered into a 50-year lease with defendant church trustees. The church trustees were the corporate body which managed and controlled the property and secular...

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