THE GENERAL CONVENTION OF THE NEW JERUSALEM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC. v. MACKENZIE


449 Mass. 832 (2007)

THE GENERAL CONVENTION OF THE NEW JERUSALEM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC., & others v. EDWARD MACKENZIE & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 15, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard M. Cooper (Julie E. Green with him) for the defendants.

Lawrence R. Kulig (Damon P. Hart with him) for the plaintiffs.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, & CORDY, JJ.


COWIN, J.

The defendant Boston Society of the New Jerusalem, Incorporated (Swedenborgian)3 (the church or the Boston church), is a Swedenborgian church that disaffiliated from (withdrew from membership in) the plaintiff General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of America, Inc. (the General Convention or the national body), a national denomination of congregational Swedenborgian...

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