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FIRST EVANGELICAL METHODIST CHURCH OF LAFAYETTE v. CLINTON

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257 Ga. 459 (1987)

360 S.E.2d 584

FIRST EVANGELICAL METHODIST CHURCH OF LAFAYETTE v. CLINTON et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 1, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gleason & Davis, Frank M. Gleason, John W. Davis, Jr., for appellant.

Hill & Henry, F. Bryant Henry, Jr., for appellees.

WELTNER, Justice.

A majority of the congregation of a local church known as First Evangelical Methodist Church, Lafayette, Georgia, voted to withdraw from the connectional church, known as the Evangelical Methodist Church. This dispute concerns the ownership of certain real property, previously possessed and used by the local church.

Our inquiry must be as to neutral principles of property law, with no admixture of doctrinal concerns. Jones v. Wolf,

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