Legal Opinion
Mount Zion Baptist Church v. Second Baptist Church
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided October 5, 1967No. 5246PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*368OPINION
By the Court,
Zenoff, J.:
This action involves a property dispute between two discordant factions within the Second Baptist Church of Reno.
A division within the church developed over a proposed purchase of a new church edifice, a merger with the Mt. Zion Baptist Church, and conflicting claims to $20,521.87 of church funds on deposit with the First National Bank of Nevada.
A special meeting of the congregation was called to discuss the proposed merger. Instead of complying with the by-laws of the association which prescribed written notice for meetings after a required time, an…
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