KING v. AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

2111119.

132 So.3d 13 (2013)

Tommy KING, Jr., et al. v. The AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, INC.

Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama.

June 7, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chirstina D. Crow of Jinks , Crow & Dickson, PC, Union Springs, for appellants.

Tom L. Larkin of The Larkin Law Firm, Birmingham; and Patrick J. Ballard of Ballard Law Office, Birmingham, for appellee.


PITTMAN, Judge.

This appeal, taken by six former trustees of a congregation of a hierarchical national church entity, concerns the validity of a purported transfer of ownership of real property that has been utilized by the local congregation in fellowship with that larger entity for a number of decades.

In July 2011, The African Methodist Episcopal Church, Inc. ("the national church corporation"), a nonprofit corporation based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

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