Legal Opinion
First English Lutheran Church v. Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided May 12, 1943No. 2670PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRATTON, Circuit Judge.
This is a church controversy. The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Kansas and Adjacent States, an ecclesiastical corporate entity chartered and existing under and by virtue of the laws of Kansas, is an orthodox synod in the United Lutheran Church in America; and Midwest Synod is likewise an orthodox synod in the United Lutheran Church. The two synods overlap in some territory, the former having member churches in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri, and the latter having member churches in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Colorado, and Texas. The First…
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