EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN DIOCESE v. GAUSS

No. 18718.

28 A.3d 288 (2011)

302 Conn. 386

The EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN the DIOCESE OF CONNECTICUT et al. v. Ronald S. GAUSS et al.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided October 11, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Howard , with whom was Howard M. Wood III , Manchester, for the appellant (prospective intervenor Bishop Seabury Church).

Alan Robert Baker , with whom were Michelle M. Seery , Wethersfield, and, on the brief, David Booth Beers , and Mary E. Kostel , pro hac vice, for the appellees (plaintiffs).

ROGERS, C.J., and NORCOTT, PALMER, ZARELLA, McLACHLAN and EVELEIGH, Js.


ZARELLA, J.

This is the first of two appeals arising from a property dispute between members of a local parish and the church with which they were affiliated. The plaintiffs, The Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Connecticut (Diocese), the Reverend Canon David Cannon,1 Bishop Seabury Church2 (Parish), and The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Episcopal Church),3...

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