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E. LAKE MET. CHURCH v. UNITED MET. CHURCH

No. 158, 1998.

731 A.2d 798 (1999)

EAST LAKE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, INC., a Delaware corporation and a Delaware Religious corporation; John W.H. Bailey, Vernon G. Bailey, Jr., Mae Bailey, Ruth Harris, and Naomi Bailey, Defendants/Third-Party Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. TRUSTEES OF THE PENINSULA-DELAWARE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, INC., a corporation of the State of Delaware, Plaintiffs Below, Appellees, and Thomas J. Eastburn, Esquire, R. Taylor Cloud, Susan Keirn Kester, Mark M. Pruett-Barnett, James T. Seymour and John Holden, Third-Party Defendants Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: May 26, 1999.

Rehearing Denied June 30, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sherry Ruggiero Fallon, Tybout, Redfearn & Pell, Wilmington, Delaware and Walter S. Rowland, Wilmington, Delaware, for appellants.

Thomas J. Eastburn, Allmond and Eastburn, Wilmington, Delaware and Stephen F. Dryden, Robinson and Grayson, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware, for appellees.

Before VEASEY, Chief Justice, WALSH, HARTNETT, and BERGER, Justices and COOCH, Judge., constituting the Court en Banc.

WALSH, Justice.

In this appeal from the Court of Chancery, we examine the legal standards that govern disputes over church property between local congregations and general ecclesiastical authorities. The Court of Chancery ruled that the general church authority was entitled to exercise ownership and control over the real and personal property, directing the discontinuance of church services, despite the objection of the local...

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