Harlem Church of Seventh Day Adventists v. Greater New York Corp. of Seventh Day Adventists

The plaintiff, a religious corporation, appeals from a judgment of reversal by the Appellate Division resulting in a dismissal of the complaint.

This action is for specific performance of an alleged oral agreement by the defendants (one the Greater New York Corporation of Seventh Day Adventists, the central corporate body of the denomination which holds title to the temporal property of the denomination, and the other ■the Greater New York Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, its highest ecclesiastical governing body) to hold in trust and to convey the present church property to the…