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WATSON v. CHRISTIE, SR.

288 A.D.2d 29 (2001)

732 N.Y.S.2d 405

FRANKLIN WATSON, Respondent-Appellant, v. RICHARD F. CHRISTIE, SR., et al., Defendants, and MANHATTAN HOLY BIBLE TABERNACLE, INC., et al., Appellants-Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided November 8, 2001.

The court properly found that plaintiff was a member of MHT for purposes of invoking Not-For-Profit Corporation Law § 621. Although the plaintiff's "fellowship" may have been "suspended" by his failure to tithe and to take "the Lord's Supper," the by-laws of MHT do not define either "fellowship" or the effect of suspension. Furthermore, the by-laws clearly set out a different criterion for expulsion of one's membership, which affords a member an opportunity to resign...

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