BENNISON v. SHARP

Docket No. 58097.

121 Mich. App. 705 (1982)

329 N.W.2d 466

BENNISON v. SHARP

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided December 6, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law, Weathers & Richardson (by Niel A. Weathers and Kevin B. Krauss), for plaintiffs.

Hess & Loeks, P.C. (by Daniel B. Hess and Susan A. Andrews), for defendant.

Before: D.F. WALSH, P.J., and WAHLS and J.R. McDONALD, JJ.


WAHLS, J.

This is a church property dispute which arose when a majority of the members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Grand Rapids seceded from the general church with which St. Paul's is affiliated, the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), formed St. Paul's Anglican Catholic Church and affiliated with the Anglican Catholic Church.

Plaintiff Bennison, Bishop of the Diocese of Western Michigan of PECUSA, and plaintiffs Jones...

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