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AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, INC. v. WARD

No. 98-8393.

185 F.3d 1201 (1999)

The AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Marie WARD, Individually and as a Trustee of Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Willie M. Reid, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 25, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LaTonya Nix Wiley, Edwards & Youmans, Macon, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Stewart R. Brown, Westmoreland, Patterson & Moseley, Macon, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before TJOFLAT and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, and BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge.

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

This case arises out of a property dispute between the national African Methodist Episcopal Church, Inc. (the "AME Church"), and a Eatonton, Georgia, congregation currently known as Brown's Chapel Community Church ("Brown's Chapel"). For over one hundred years, beginning in the late nineteenth century, Brown's Chapel was part of the AME Church. Then, in July 1994, the membership of Brown's Chapel voted to disassociate

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