Schismatic & Purported Casa Linda Presbyterian Church in America v. Grace Union Presbytery, Inc.

STEWART, Justice.

This case concerns a dispute over the ownership of church property after some of the members of the Casa Linda Presbyterian Church of Dallas, Texas, sought to withdraw from the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS), the hierarchical and parent church to which Casa Linda Presbyterian Church had always belonged. The withdrawing group appeals the trial court’s judgment vesting title to the church’s real and personal property in the church members who remain loyal to the parent church. In seven points of error, the withdrawing group contends that the trial court erred…