ENDOWMENT FUND v. VESTRY OF ST. JOHN'S

Record No. 870586.

377 S.E.2d 375 (1989)

ST. JOHN'S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT FUND, INC., et al. v. VESTRY OF ST. JOHN'S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, etc.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 3, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. Randolph Boyd (John K. Messersmith, IV, Watson M. Marshall, Randolph, Boyd, Cherry and Vaughan, Marshall and Canfield, P.C., Richmond, on brief), for appellants.

Parker E. Cherry (Purcell, Cherry, Kerns, Abady & Seymour, Richmond, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


CARRICO, Chief Justice.

This appeal in a declaratory judgment proceeding involves a dispute between the Vestry of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church (the Vestry) and St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church Endowment Fund, Incorporated, a nonstock corporation (the Fund).1 The subject of the dispute is the length of the terms of the Fund's trustees.

Relying upon its certificate of incorporation, the Fund contended below that the...

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