Legal Opinion
Russian Church of Our Lady of Kazan v. Dunkel
New York Supreme Court
Decided October 28, 1971PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJoseph Liff, J.
We have two actions which have been joined for trial. A plaintiff in the first action, the Russian Church of Our Lady of Kazan, is a religious corporation created in 1942 under then article 5-B, now article 5-A of the Religious Corporations Law of the State. Its place of worship is at Sea Cliff, New York. The remaining plaintiffs are the Rector, Trustees and other officers of the church corporation who brought this action on behalf of the corporation claiming they are its duly elected Trustees, etc., and that the defendants unlawfully usurped their functions and ousted the corporation from…
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