Legal Opinion
Ferguson v. Poitier
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided January 17, 1975No. 72-1197PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
DOWNEY, Judge.
This case involves a property dispute between a local church and a church organization which claimed to be the parent of the local church.
The appellees, Church of God General Assembly (which has its headquarters in Cleveland, Tennessee) and Reverend H. G. Poitier (State Overseer for the Church of God General Assembly), sued the appellants (who are several clergymen, a corporation holding title to the local church property in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and several corporate officers), alleging that appellants were representing a group of dissident members of the appellee Church of…
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