PREMIERE EGLISE BAPTISTE HAITIENNE DE MANHATTAN v. JOSEPH


57 A.D.3d 330 (2008)

870 N.Y.S.2d 13

PREMIERE EGLISE BAPTISTE HAITIENNE DE MANHATTAN (FIRST HAITIAN BAPTIST CHURCH OF MANHATTAN), Respondent, v. GEORGE JOSEPH, Appellant. (Action No. 1.) GEORGE JOSEPH, Appellant, v. ACTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE PREMIERE EGLISE BAPTISTE HAITIENNE DE MANHATTAN (FIRST HAITIAN BAPTIST CHURCH OF MANHATTAN) et al., Respondents. (Action No. 2.)

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

December 18, 2008.


The first-captioned action, which was brought by the church and seeks declaratory relief resolving Joseph's authority over the church's temporal affairs and injunctive relief restraining him from interfering in such affairs and from disturbing church services, turns almost entirely on the meaning and effect of a stipulation settling a prior action between the parties and the church's former pastor, since deceased, who was also Joseph's father and from whom Joseph claims to...

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