Legal Opinion
Peters Creek United Presbyterian Church v. Washington Presbytery
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 30, 2014PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY
President Judge PELLEGRINI.1
I. INTRODUCTION
These consolidated cases involve a dispute over the control of a nonprofit corpo*101ration and church property, including the church building, land and personal property. Internecine battles of this kind have existed for hundreds of years in our jurisprudence. See Baker v. Fales, 16 Mass. 488 (1820) (resolving the Dedham Church property dispute). Such disputes are not unique in the Commonwealth and always entail much emotion and often sadness among the competing factions. The dispute here is between the majority of the members (“Majority”) of…
2Cases cited34 opinions
- Epperson v. ArkansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Watson v. JonesSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
- Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese for United States and Canada v. MilivojevichSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Presbyterian Church in US v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian ChurchSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Jones v. WolfSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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