Beulah Pilgrim Holiness Church v. Otto

Pursuant to Mass.R.Civ.P. 64(a), as amended, 423 Mass. 1403 (1996), a Housing Court judge reported his August 31, 2015, interlocutory order (order) for review and determination whether the Housing Court has subject matter jurisdiction to resolve a church property dispute between two factions of the Beulah Pilgrim Holiness Church (church). In the order, the judge concluded that the court had jurisdiction to determine the ultimate issue in a summary process action that Terrance Davis, acting as a purported agent of the church, brought against four of its tenants.3 We answer the reported order…