TRINITY LUTH. EV. CH. v. MAY

No. 30 T.D. 1987.

112 Pa.Commw. 557 (1988)

537 A.2d 38

Trinity Lutheran Evangelical Church, a non-profit corporation, D. Douglas Roth and Nadine Roth, Appellants v. Bishop Kenneth R. May, on behalf of The Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Synod of The Lutheran Church in America, Appellees.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

January 19, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rev. D. Douglas Roth, with him, Nadine Roth, appellants, for themselves.

Roger C. Wiegand, Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, for appellees.

Argued October 7, 1987, before President Judge CRUMLISH, JR., Judges CRAIG, MacPHAIL, DOYLE, BARRY, COLINS and PALLADINO.


OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, January 19, 1988:

Trinity Lutheran Evangelical Church of Clairton appeals an order entered on September 17, 1986 in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, making permanent a preliminary injunction ordering Trinity to turn over all property to the Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Synod of the Lutheran Church in America and to refrain from interfering with Synod's use of the property.

Trinity has raised the following claims...

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