Legal Opinion

Duncan v. Watterson

Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit of Florida, Palm Beach County

Decided February 21, 1979No. 77-3926 CA(L)01 KPublished

1Opinion of the Court

R. WILLIAM RUTTER, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Final judgment: This cause was tried before the court following the entry of a pretrial stipulation and the agreement to admission into evidence of numerous documents in addition to the oral testimony of witnesses. The case involves a dispute between two groups *56contending for control of the property of the defendant, Church of the Holy Spirit, Inc., hereinafter sometimes referred to as Holy Spirit, a Florida corporation not-for-profit, which had been an Episcopal church parish in West Palm Beach since approximately 1954. The plaintiffs are the group which…

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