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CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST v. EMMANUEL CHURCH

No. 104,859.

280 P.3d 795 (2012)

47 Kan. App. 2d 674

CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST, INC. and Kansas Southwest Jurisdiction Church of God in Christ, Appellees, v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF EMMANUEL CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST, WICHITA, Kansas; R.E. Stidham; James S. Rich; Doris Woods; Evelyn Echols; Missy Lois McIntyre; Donald C. McIntyre; Brenda Stidham; and Jerome Franklin, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Kansas.

June 8, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

JoElaine Heaven , of Coffeyville, for appellants.

C. Edward Watson II , Holly A. Dyer , and James D. Oliver , of Foultson Siefkin, LLP, for appellees.

Before MALONE, P.J., PIERRON and BRUNS, JJ.

BRUNS, J.

This case involves a lengthy dispute over the ownership and control of real property between an international church body and one of its local congregations. The Church of God in Christ, Inc. (COGIC), a hierarchical denominational church, was granted a default judgment against the board of trustees and several individual members of Emmanuel Church of God in Christ, Wichita, Kansas (the defendants). Specifically, the district court granted injunctive relief...

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