Legal Opinion
Browning v. Burton
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided November 17, 1954No. 10249PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRAY, Justice.
This suit was brought as a class action and grew out of a controversy between two groups of a colored Methodist Church in Temple, Texas. Each group claims to be entitled to the possession of Lot ‘3, Block 3 of the S. E. Bills Addition to said City of Temple, together with the church building located thereon, the parsonage and other church' properties.
The history and the facts pertinent to the inquiry here are: About the year 1816, there was organized in the State of Pennsylvania the African Methqdist Episcopal Church. This church has extended its organization into the several…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Brown v. ClarkTexas Supreme Court · 1909
- Humphries v. WileyCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1934
- Brown v. WarfieldCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1950
3Cited by13 opinions
- Masterson v. Diocese of Northwest TexasTexas Supreme Court · 2013
- Presbytery of the Covenant v. First Presbyterian Church of Paris, Inc.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1977
- Schismatic & Purported Casa Linda Presbyterian Church in America v. Grace Union Presbytery, Inc., Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)1986
- Church of God in Christ, Inc. v. Reverend A. L. CawthonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
- Masterson v. Diocese of Northwest Texas, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2011
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