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BD. OF INCORPORATORS v. MT. OLIVE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF FRUITLAND, INC.

No. 982 Sept. Term, 1995.

672 A.2d 679 (1996)

108 Md. App. 551

BOARD OF INCORPORATORS OF the AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, INC., et al. v. MT. OLIVE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF FRUITLAND, INC., et al.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari Granted March 8, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Starnes (Scott A. Richie, A. Lindsey Crawford, Andrews & Kurth, L.L.P., Washington, DC, and Leronia A. Josey Baltimore, on the brief), for Appellants.

John C. Seipp (A. Gillis Allen, II, Karen S. Payne, and Adkins & Allen, L.L.P., on the brief), Salisbury, for Appellees.

Argued before WENNER and DAVIS, JJ., and PAUL E. ALPERT, Judge (Retired), Specially Assigned.

DAVIS, Judge.

This appeal involves a dispute between a parent church and one of its former local congregations over the ownership and control of two parcels of local church property. The following question, as we restate it, is presented for our review:

Did the circuit court err in determining that, subsequent to the local church's secession from the parent church, the local church retained sole and exclusive ownership of its local church property free and...

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