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- Title: Independent Methodist Episcopal Church v. Davis
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 31, 1950
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 74 KB
Description
These actions, transferred to the Superior Court from the Court of Common Pleas, are concerned with funds on deposit in Hartford banks and with three parcels of land used for religious purposes. The objective of the first suit, instituted originally against the Reverend Daniel D. Davis, pastor of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Hartford, with whom several others were subsequently joined as parties defendant, is to obtain a declaratory judgment determining the ownership of the real and personal property as well as injunctive relief and damages. The second action was brought by Mr. Davis and certain members of his congregation to enjoin six individuals, all of whom are plaintiffs in the first action, from closing the church and preventing its use as a house of worship. Both actions involved the same set of facts. They were referred to a state referee. A remonstrance to his report was overruled and judgment was entered for the plaintiffs in the first case and the defendants in the second. The unsuccessful parties have appealed. In this opinion, the appellants in both instances will be called the defendants and the appellees, the plaintiffs.