Legal Opinion
Sims v. Greene
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 4, 1947No. 9342PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIGGS, Circuit Judge.
On December 2, 1946, the plaintiff, David H. Sims, filed a complaint against the defendant, Sherman L. Greene, alleging that he, Sims, is a citizen of Pennsylvania and a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and that he was assigned by a General Conference 1 of the AME Church held in 1944 to the First Episcopal District 2 to serve as the presiding bishop of that district until the next General Conference to be held in 1948; that the defendant, another bishop of the same church, has appeared in the First Episcopal District and within the jurisdiction of the…
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