Legal Opinion
Second Refuge Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Inc. v. Lollar
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 21, 2007No. S07A1170PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SEARS, Chief Justice.
This appeal involves a dispute over the ownership of church property in Fulton County. In 2003 the plaintiff, a nonprofit religious corporation, filed a complaint to quiet title to improved real property that had served as the congregation’s temporal home since the mid- 1960’s. The need for the lawsuit arose out of the estrangement of the congregation from its founding pastor and his decision in 1998 to broker a deal to sell the property to a congregation in Cobb County. A special master was appointed who ultimately recommended that the trial court cancel a 1990 quitclaim…
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