SOV. O. OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM-KNIGHTS v. MESSINEO

Civ. A. No. 83-0032.

572 F.Supp. 983 (1983)

SOVEREIGN ORDER OF SAINT JOHN OF JERUSALEM-KNIGHTS OF MALTA By William H. COLEMAN, II, Trustee ad Litem, Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Inc., and Thorbjorn Wiklund v. Salvatore T. MESSINEO, Leonard J. Messineo, Sr., Leonard J. Messineo, Jr., Francisco J. Vasile and Aleksei Nicholaevich Romanoff, a/k/a Michael Goleniewski.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

August 30, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Speicher, Reading, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Edward M. Foley, Brutscher & Brutscher, Kennett Square, Pa., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HUYETT, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This action involves a complex dispute among many parties over the control of a non-profit, religious-military order and charitable organization, the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem — Knights of Malta, and a non-profit Delaware corporation, Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Inc., organized to accomplish the purposes of the order. The action also presents claims...

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