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MT. OLIVE v. BOARD OF INCORPORATORS

No. 26, Sept. Term, 1996.

703 A.2d 194 (1997)

348 Md. 299

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

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 19, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Seipp, Salisbury, for Petitioners.

Thomas E. Starnes (A. Lindsey Crawford, Andrews & Kurth, L.L.P., on brief), Washington, DC, Leronia A. Josey, Baltimore, on brief, for Respondents.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, RAKER and WILNER, JJ.

BELL, Chief Judge.

This appeal arose out of a dispute between a local church and the religious hierarchy with which it had been affiliated for more than one hundred years. The dispute concerns ownership of real property titled in the name of the trustees of the local church, and the question presented for our resolution is whether the trustees and the local congregation lost the rights given them by the deed of the property and confirmed by the Religious Corporations...

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