Church Property Disputes in the Civil Courts
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T HE EXTENT to which civil courts may assume jurisdiction of ecclesiastical matters in church property disputes1 was involved in the North Carolina case of Reid v. Johnston. 2 There, a Baptist church, organized in 1894, -received land on a conveyance which attached no doctrinal limitations to its use. In 1953, a new pastor, supported by a majority of the congregation, led a movement to withdraw from the Southern Baptist Convention5 and to establish an Independent Missionary Baptist Church. A dissident minority, seeking to frustrate this proposed plan, however, brought an action in ejectment to determine which faction should be entitled to control the church property. The court classified the church as an independent, self-governing body, but announced that the defendant-majority had so far departed
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