Bray v. Moses

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Beversing.

The controversy is over the right to the nse and control of the property of the Church of Grod at Cawood, Harlan County. The division in the congregation does not arise from any difference in doctrine so that the courts are not called upon to protect a minority from diversion of the property to that of another faith, or from a majority deviating from the doctrine or a characteristic practice of the original organization, as in Parker v. Harper, 295 Ky. 686, 175 S. W. 2d 361.

One of the questions presented is whether the churcn is to he…