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BERKAW v. MAYFLOWER CONG. CHURCH

Docket No. 5,892.

18 Mich. App. 245 (1969)

170 N.W.2d 905

BERKAW v. MAYFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Rehearing denied August 4, 1969.

Leave to appeal denied March 26, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beaumont, Smith & Harris (Alfred E. Lindbloom, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Dykema, Wheat, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg (H. Gordon Wood and Laurence D. Connor, of counsel), for defendant.

Amicus curiae: Thomas G. Long.

Before: LESINSKI, C.J., and FITZGERALD and V.J. BRENNAN, JJ.

Leave to appeal denied March 26, 1970. See 383 Mich. 774.

LESINSKI, C.J.

This is an appeal from summary and accelerated judgments granted to defendant, Mayflower Congregational Church, by the Wayne county circuit court.

The action arose following a merger of the Evangelical and Reformed Churches and the Congregational Christian Churches into a new church, the United Church of Christ.* Pursuant to that merger, defendant...

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